List of Scottish scientists

List of Scottish scientists

:"This article is part of the List of Scots series"List of Scottish scientists is a list of Scottish scientists.

*Thomas Addis (1881–1949), physician, pioneer in nephrology
*William Aiton (1731–1793), botanist
*Alexander Anderson (mathematician) (c. 1582 – c. 1620) mathematician
*Ken Bairden (1943–2007), Parasitologist, epidemiologist, veterinarian
*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
*David Bruce (1855–1931), pathologist and microbiologist
*Phillip Clancey (1917–2001), pioneering ornithologist
*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, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945
*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
*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 – c. 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 in 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 Somerville, mathematician and astronomer
*Matthew Stewart (1717–1785), mathematician
*James Stirling (mathematician) (1692–1770), mathematician
*John Struthers (anatomist) (1823-1899), anatomist
*Hunter Thomson (1986-), chemist
*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

ee also

*Key figures in the Scottish Enlightenment


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