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Biographies: Scientists

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Scientists
William Aiton (Kew Gardens) John Anderson (Educationalist) Alexander Graham Bell (Telephone) Joseph Black (Chemist) Sir David Brewster (Optics) Alexander Crum Brown (Molecules) Robert Brown (Botanist) William Speirs Bruce (Explorer) James Burnett, Lord Monboddo J. Norman Collie (Mountaineer) James Dewar (Physicist) Robert Dick (Naturalist) Thomas Dick (Astronomer) David Douglas (Botanist) James Alfred Ewing (Physicist) Hugh Falconer (Botanist) James Ferguson (Astronomer) Alexander Fleming (Penicillin) Williamina Fleming (Astronomer) James David Forbes (Physicist) Robert Fortune (Botanist)
   

Sir Patrick Geddes (Town Planner) Sir Archibald Geikie (Geologist) Thomas Graham (Graham's Law) Sir James Hall (Geologist) James Hector (Geologist) Thomas Henderson (Astronomer) James Hutton (Geologist) James Ivory (Mathematician) Robert Jameson (Naturalist) Sir William Jardine (Naturalist) Johann von Lamont (Astronomer) Sir JohnLeslie (Physicist) John Macadam (Australia) William MacGillivray (Naturalist) Charles Macintosh (Waterproofing) Sheila Scott Macintyre (Maths) Colin Maclaurin (Mathematician) Sheina Marshall (Marine Biologist) Francis Masson (Plant Hunter) James Clerk Maxwell (Physicist) Archibald Menzies (Naturalist) Hugh Miller (Geologist)

Sir Roderick Murchison (Geologist) John Napier (Logarithms) Robert Stirling Newall (Cables) John Playfair (Mathematician) Doris Reynolds (Geologist) Anne Robertson (Archaeologist) Marion Ross (Physicist) William Roxburgh (Botanist) Flora Sadler (Astronomer) Sir Andrew Smith (Naturalist) Robert Angus Smith (Chemist) Charles Piazzi Smyth (Astronomer) Mary Somerville (Scientist) Dugald Stewart (Philosopher) Peter Guthrie Tait (Physicist) Joseph Thomson (Africa) William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Charles Thomson (Oceanographer) Andrew Ure (Doctor) John Walker (Scientist) Robert Watson-Watt (Radar) Alexander Webster (Statistician) James Young (Oil Shale)
   

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