Fellowship

The RSE Fellowship comprises around 1,800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland. This range of expertise within the Fellowship places us in a unique position to provide an informed, interdisciplinary response to issues facing Scotland and internationally.

Our Fellows from academia, business and public service are among the most distinguished in their fields. We engage and connect nationally and internationally to share knowledge and tackle the most pressing challenges of the modern world.

Elected: 1989
Discipline: Physics and Astronomy
Professor William Firth

Research Professor

Former Head of Physics, University of Strathclyde
Emeritus Professor (former Freeland Chair of Natural Philosophy)
BSc Mathematical Physics (Edinburgh, 1966)
PhD (Heriot-Watt University 1973)
Fellow, Optical Society of America (1992)
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