Was there any famous scientists in Scotland?

Answer 1

William Aiton (1731-1793), botanist

Alexander Anderson (mathematician), (c. 1582-1620?) mathematician

John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884), botanist

Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960), mathematician

Joseph Black, (1728-1799), discoverer of carbon dioxide

David Brewster, (1781-1868), founder of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts

Thomas Brisbane, (1773-1860), astronomer

Robert Brown, (1773-1858), discoverer of Brownian Motion and botanist

John Craig (1663-1731), mathematician and friend of Newton

Alexander Crum Brown, (1838 - 1922), Organic chemist

William Cullen, (1710-1790), physician and chemist

James Dewar, (1842-1923), low temperature physicist, invented the vacuum flask

James Alfred Ewing, (1855-1935), physicist and engineer

Hugh Falconer, (1808-1865), paleontologist

James Ferguson, (1710-1776), Scottish astronomer and instrument maker

Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), microbiologist

Williamina Fleming, (1857-1911), astronomer, contributed to the cataloguing of stars

James David Forbes (1809-1868), physicist and geologist

Professor George Forbes, (1849-1936), electrical engineering, hydro-electric power generation

Robert Fortune (1813-1880), botanist

Patrick Geddes, (1854-1932), biologist and urban theorist

Sir David Gill, (1843-1914), pioneer in astrophotography

Thomas Graham, (1805-1869), chemist, discovered dialysis

James Gregory, (1638-1675), first described the Gregorian reflecting telescope eventually built by Robert Hooke

James Hall (geologist), (1761-1832), geologist

Thomas Henderson, (1798-1844), astronomer, first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri

James Hutton, (1726-1797), put geology on a scientific basis

Robert T. A. Innes, (1861-1933), astronomer, discovered Proxima Centauri

James Ivory (mathematician) (1765-1842), mathematician

William Jardine (naturalist) (1800-1874), naturalist

Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882-1957), zoologist

Johann von Lamont, (1805-1879), astronomer, calculated the orbits of the moons of Uranus and Saturn

John Leslie (physicist), (1766-1832), mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat

Joseph Lister, (1827-1912), surgeon, pioneered antisepsis techniques and antibiotics

John Macadam (1827-1865), Scottish-born Australian botanist

William MacGillivray (1796-1852), naturalist

Sheila Scott Macintyre (1910-1960), mathematician

Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746), mathematician, developed maclaurin series

William Maclure, (1760-1843), geologist

Francis Masson (1741-1805?), botanist

James Clerk Maxwell, (1831-1879), thermodynamics and electromagnetic theorist

Archibald Menzies, (1754-1852) explorer and botanist

Philip Miller (1691-1771), botanist

Roderick Murchison, (1792-1871), geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian era.

Alexander Murray (geologist),(1810-1884), geologist

John Napier, (1550-1617), mathematician (see logarithms)

William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863-1924), ornithologist

Sir William Ramsay, (1852-1916), Nobel prize for Chemistry 1904

John Richardson (naturalist) (1787-1865), naturalist

William Roxburgh (1759-1815), botanist

Andrew Smith (zoologist) (1797-1872), zoologist

Charles Piazzi Smyth, (1819-1900), Astronomer Royal of Scotland

Robert Angus Smith, (1817-1884), environmental chemist, discovered acid rain

Mary Fairfax Sommerville, mathematician and astronomer

Matthew Stewart (1717-1785), mathematician

James Stirling (mathematician), (1692-1770), mathematician

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), mathematician, physicist, engineer

James Watt, 1736-1819), mathematician and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine contributed to a key stage in the Industrial Revolution.

Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), invented radar

Joseph Wedderburn (1882-1948), mathematician

Alexander Wilson, (1766-1813), arguably the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon

Charles Wilson, (1869-1959), physicist, invented the cloud chamber

James 'Paraffin' Young, (1811-1883), chemist