Struther Arnott
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Struther Arnott CBE, FRS, FRSE, (born 25 September 1934) is a Scottish academic and was former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews.
Educated at the University of Glasgow, he worked with the Biophysics Unit of King's College London, before his appointment as Professor of Molecular Biology at Purdue University, Indiana. At Purdue he served as Vice-President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. He returned to the United Kingdom to serve as Principal and Vice-Chancellor at St Andrews from 1986 until his resignation in December 1999.
He has held visiting fellowships at Oxford University and is a Fellow of King's College, London. He was appointed a Fellow of The Royal Society in 1985, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1988, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996.
Dr. Arnott has two sons, his elder son, Aaron Arnott is employed by the prestigious bond firm Stone & Youngberg in the United States. His younger son, Euan attained his PHD at Cambridge in chemistry and is currently designing processes for Astra Zenca pharmaceuticals Bollington. Dr. Arnott also has two Grandchildren.
He is married to fellow PHD holder Greta Arnott.
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