Which university was named by a king, Columbia University or Prince of Songkla University?
Prince of Songkla University
Prince of Songkla University
Prince of Songkla University (Thai: มหาวิทยาลัยสงขลานครินทร์ ; rtgs: Mahawitthayalai Songkhla Nakharin ) is the first university in southern Thailand, established in 1967.
 The name of the university was granted by the King Bhumibol Adulyadej in honor of "His Royal Highness" Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkla, the King's father.
Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City, often cited as one of the world's most prestigious universities.
Albert Starr
Albert Starr (born 1926), is a noted American cardiovascular surgeon and pioneer, inventor of the Starr heart valve, who resides and practices in the Portland, Oregon area.
 Starr is special adviser to OHSU Dean of Medicine Mark Richardson and OHSU President Joseph Robertson (OHSU) at Oregon Health and Science University.
 Albert Starr was born on June 1, 1926, in New York, New York.
 He received his B.A. degree from Columbia College (now Columbia University) in 1946 and his M.D. degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1949.
 He then went on to do his internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital and his residency in general and thoracic surgery at the Bellevue and Presbyterian Hospitals of Columbia University.
 He was an assistant in surgeon at Columbia University until 1957, when he moved to Oregon—having been enticed, in part, by the Oregon Heart Association's promises to help fund his research and to take him salmon fishing.
 There he worked for the Crippled Children's Division at the University of Oregon Medical School (now the Oregon Health and Science University).
 Starr was an instructor in surgery when he met Lowell Edwards in September 1958.
 Starr has said of this meeting, "He was in his 60s and I was in my 30s, but there was no generation gap between us. Sirichok Sopha
Sirichok Sopha (Thai: ศิริโชค โสภา ; born 14 June 1967), nicknamed Lek ( ] , Thai: เล็ก , "small"), is a Thai Democrat Party politician who represented Songkhla Province in the House of Representatives.
 He was educated at Assumption College, St Bede's Preparatory School, Eastbourne College, King's College London (B.Sc.
 in Chemistry) and Prince of Songkla University (MBA), and previously served as Private Secretary to Abhisit Vejjajiva. Pichaet Wiriyachitra
Pichaet Wiriyachitra Ph.D.,F.R.A.C.I. (ศ.ดร.พิ เชษฐ์ วิริยะจิตรา) was a professor of chemistry at Prince of Songkla University.
 He has specialized in the development of pharmaceuticals from natural products, particularly xanothones from Mangosteen.
 He is also Chairman and CEO of Asian Phytoceuticals Public Co., Ltd., List of Columbia University people
This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University.
 For further listing of notable Columbians see: Notable alumni at Columbia College of Columbia University; Columbia University School of General Studies; Columbia Law School; Columbia Business School; Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Columbia University Graduate School of Education (Teachers College); Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Columbia University School of Professional Studies; Columbia University School of the Arts; and the School of International and Public Affairs.
 The following lists are incomplete. Mahidol Adulyadej
Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkla (Thai: สมเด็จเจ้าฟ้ามหิดลอดุลยเดช กรมหลวงสงขลานครินทร์ ) or Mahidol Adulyadej the Prince Father (Thai: สมเด็จพระมหิตลาธิเบศร อดุลยเดชวิกรม พระบรมราชชนก rtgs: "Somdet Phra Mahitalathibet Adunyadetwikrom Phra Borommaratchachanok" , 1 January 1892 – 24 September 1929) or Mahidol Songkla was the father of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) and King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand.
 He was also regarded as the father of modern medicine and public health of Thailand.
 He also founded the House of Mahidol or the present Royal Family of Thailand. Claudio Lomnitz
Claudio Lomnitz is the Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.
 Prior to teaching at Columbia, Lomnitz was a Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School University.
 He served at different points in time as co-director of the University of Chicago's Mexican Studies Program (with Friedrich Katz), Director of the University of Chicago's Latin American Studies Program, and Director of Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
 He has also taught at University of Chicago, where he was Professor of History, New York University, El Colegio de México, and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, in Mexico City.
 At the New School University, Lomnitz was appointed editor of the academic journal Public Culture, which moved with him to Columbia University in 2006.
 He continued to serve as editor until 2011. Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library
Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library is located on the 6th Floor of Columbia University's Butler Library.
 The library holds the special collections of Columbia University, as well as the Columbia University Archives.
 The range of the library's holdings spans more than 4,000 years, from cylinder seals created in Mesopotamia to contemporary artists' books.
 In addition to printed and manuscript resources, the library contains cuneiform tablets, papyri, ostraca, astronomical and mathematical instruments, maps, works of art, photographs, posters, early printing presses and papermaking equipment, type specimens, sound and moving image recordings, theater set models, puppets, masks, ephemera and memorabilia.
 The Rare Book and Manuscript Library includes unique and rare materials related to all subject areas. List of Columbia University alumni
This is a sorted list of notable persons who are alumni of Columbia University, New York City.
 For further listing of notable Columbians see: Notable alumni at Columbia College of Columbia University; Columbia University School of General Studies; Barnard College; Columbia Law School; Columbia Business School; Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Columbia University Graduate School of Education (Teachers College); Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Columbia University School of Professional Studies; Columbia University School of the Arts; and the School of International and Public Affairs.