| Scientist |
Lifespan |
Primary field |
Note |
| Key figures |
|
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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 |
scientist |
astronomical theory of 19th-century 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 |
| Anna MacGillivray Macleod |
1917-2004 |
botanist, biochemist, |
professor of brewing |
| John James Rickard Macleod |
1876–1935 |
biochemist, physiologist |
Nobel Prize laureate, 1923 |
| John George Macleod |
1915-2006 |
physician |
author of medical books |
| William Maclure |
1760–1843 |
geologist |
|
| Alan MacMasters |
1865–1927 |
scientist, inventor, industrialist |
inventor of the toaster |
| 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 |
