Professor Sir David MacMillan, the Nobel prize-winning scientist, is to fund places at his former university for underprivileged Scottish students.
MacMillan set up a charitable foundation to help young people gain access to higher education with the £400,000 he received for winning the Nobel prize for chemistry.
He has now said that the first tranche will be used to fund scholarships at Glasgow University, where he gained his degree in 1989.
MacMillan, originally from New Stevenston, Lanarkshire, was honoured by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which organises the Nobel awards, after developing an easier, greener way to build molecules.
The 54-year-old, a professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, told of his pride that Glasgow students would be the first to benefit.
