Novelists, poets, botanists, chemists and UN special envoys are among the latest fellows to be elected by Scotland's learned society.
Ian Rankin, the author of the Edinburgh-set Inspector Rebus novels, and Don Paterson, professor of poetry at the University of St Andrews and poetry editor for Picador, have been granted fellowships of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, alongside George Reid, former presiding officer of the Scottish parliament, and Mary Robinson, UN special envoy for climate change.
Among the 56 fellows, the society has highlighted a number who are “notable not only for their individual successes, but also as inspirational figures for young women”, including the principal of Glasgow Caledonian University Pamela Gillies and Petra Wend, principal of Queen Margaret University.
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