The James Hutton Institute is named after him because he was an acknowledged innovator, thinker and his areas of science mapped so well to our work. We are one of the biggest independent ...

Young James Hutton, attracted at first by chemistry, spent three years in the medical school of . . . Notes * Burroughs Wellcome Fellow in Allergy, University of Colorado Medical Center.

James Hutton: The Genius of Time, by Ray Perman, Birlinn, 290pp, £25. Related topics: Edinburgh Scotland. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our ...

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Leading the party was James Hutton, one of the first geologists. His goal was to show his peers an "unconformity" – two juxtaposing rock layers, separated by a sharp line.

THE hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of Dr. James Hutton (1726–97), the celebrated geologist, which occurred on March 26, brings to mind a little-known phase in the utilization of ...