List of Scottish engineers and scientists is a list of Scottish scientists.
Scientist | Lifespan | Primary field | Note |
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Key figures | Scottish Enlightenment | ||
Thomas Addison | 1881–1949 | physician | nephrology pioneer |
William Aiton | 1731–1793 | botanist | |
Alexander Anderson | 158?–162? | mathematician | c. 1582– c. 1620 |
William Arthur | 1894–1979 | mathematician | |
John Logie Baird | 1888-1946 | engineer | television inventor |
Ken Bairden | 1943–2007 | parasitologist, epidemiologist, veterinarian | |
John Hutton Balfour | 1808–1884 | botanist | |
Alexander Graham Bell | 1847-1922 | engineer, scientist | telephone inventor |
Eric Temple Bell | 1883–1960 | mathematician | |
James W. Black | 1924-2010 | physician | Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1988 |
Joseph Black | 1728–1799 | scientist | carbon dioxide discoverer |
David Brewster | 1781–1868 | scientist | Royal Scottish Society of Arts founder |
Thomas Brisbane | 1773–1860 | astronomer | |
Robert Brown | 1773–1858 | botanist | Brownian Motion discoverer |
David Bruce | 1855–1931 | pathologist, microbiologist | |
Phillip Clancey | 1917–2001 | ornithologist | ornithology pioneer |
John Craig | 1663–1731 | mathematician | Newton colleague |
James Croll | 1821-1890 | scicentist | astronomical theory of 19th C. climate change, leading proponent |
Alexander Crum Brown | 1838–1922 | chemist | organic chemistry |
William Cullen | 1710–1790 | physician, chemist | |
James Dewar | 1842–1923 | physicist | low temperature, vacuum flask inventor |
David Drysdale | 1877–1946 | mathematician | |
James Alfred Ewing | 1855–1935 | physicist, engineer | |
Hugh Falconer | 1808–1865 | paleontologist | |
James Ferguson | 1710–1776 | astronomer, instrument maker | |
Alexander Fleming | 1881–1955 | microbiologist | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945 |
Williamina Fleming | 1857–1911 | astronomer | cataloguing of stars contributor |
James David Forbes | 1809–1868 | physicist, geologist | |
Professor George Forbes | 1849–1936 | scientist | electrical engineering, hydro-electric power generation |
Robert Fortune | 1813–1880 | botanist | |
John Fraser | 1750-1811 | botanist, plant collector | |
Patrick Geddes | 1854–1932 | biologist | urban theorist |
Sir David Gill | 1843–1914 | astronomer | astrophotography pioneer |
Thomas Graham | 1805–1869 | chemist | dialysis discovered |
James Gregory | 1638–1675 | astronomer, mathematician | Gregorian reflecting telescope, first described, Robert Hooke later built |
James Hall | 1761–1832 | geologist | |
M R Henderson | 1899-1982 | botanist | |
Thomas Henderson | 1798–1844 | astronomer | Alpha Centauri, first measured distance |
James Hutton | 1726–1797 | geologist | scientific basis of geology established |
Robert T. A. Innes | 1861–1933 | astronomer | Proxima Centauri discoverer |
James Ivory | 1765–1842 | mathematician | |
William Jardine | 1800–1874 | naturalist | |
Norman Boyd Kinnear | 1882–1957 | zoologist | |
Johann von Lamont | 1805–1879 | astronomer | Uranus and Saturn moon orbits calculated |
John Leslie | 1766–1832 | mathematician, physicist | heat research |
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS | 1827–1912 | surgeon | antiseptic surgery introduced, eponymous Listerine |
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS | 1797–1875 | geologist, lawyer | geology pioneer, (British), foremost of his day |
John Macadam | 1827–1865 | botanist | (Scottish-born Australian) |
William MacGillivray | 1796–1852 | naturalist | |
Sheila Scott Macintyre | 1910–1960 | mathematician | |
Colin Maclaurin | 1698–1746 | mathematician | maclaurin series developer |
John James Rickard Macleod | 1876–1935 | biochemist, physiologist | Nobel Prize laureate, 1923 |
William Maclure | 1760–1843 | geologist | |
Francis Masson | 1741–180? | botanist | 1741– c. 1805 |
James Clerk Maxwell | 1831–1879 | scientist | thermodynamics, electromagnetics theorist |
Archibald Menzies | 1754–1852 | botanist, explorer | |
Philip Miller | 1691–1771 | botanist | |
Roderick Murchison | 1792–1871 | geologist | Silurian period first described, investigated |
Alexander Murray | 1810–1884 | geologist | |
John Napier | 1550–1617 | mathematician | logarithms |
William Robert Ogilvie-Grant | 1863–1924 | ornithologist | |
Sir William Ramsay | 1852–1916 | chemist | Nobel prize in Chemistry, 1904 |
William John Macquorn Rankine | 1820–1872 | engineer, physicist | Rankine thermodynamic scale (absolute temperature), proposer |
John Richardson | 1787–1865 | naturalist | |
William Roxburgh | 1759–1815 | botanist | |
Daniel Rutherford | 1749-1819 | chemist | nitrogen element discoverer |
Sir James Young Simpson | 1811-1870 | physician | anaesthetic chloroform discoverer, midwifery pioneer |
Andrew Smith | 1797–1872 | zoologist | |
Charles Piazzi Smyth | 1819–1900 | astronomer | Astronomer Royal of Scotland |
Robert Angus Smith | 1817–1884 | chemist | environmental chemistry, acid rain, discoverer |
Mary Somerville | mathematician, astronomer | ||
Matthew Stewart | 1717–1785 | mathematician | |
James Stirling | 1692–1770 | mathematician | |
John Struthers | 1823-1899 | anatomist | |
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin | 1824–1907 | mathematician, physicist, engineer | |
Thomas Telford | 1757–1834 | engineer, architect | civil engineer, canal builder |
James Watt | 1736–1819 | mathematician, engineer | steam engine improvements contributed key stage in the Industrial Revolution. |
Robert Watson-Watt | 1892–1973 | scientist | radar inventor |
Joseph Wedderburn | 1882–1948 | mathematician | |
Alexander Wilson | 1766–1813 | ornithologist | ornithology pioneer pre-Audubon (American) |
Charles Wilson | 1869–1959 | physicist | cloud chamber inventor |
James 'Paraffin' Young | 1811–1883 | chemist | |
William Fairbairn | 1789–1874 | engineer | structural |
Wardrope David | 19??- | physicist |
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