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James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
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Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
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John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
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William John Macquorn Rankine
civil engineer (1820–1872)
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James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)
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Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
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Richard Henderson
Nobel prize winning British biochemist (born 1945)
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Daniel Rutherford
British physician, chemist, botanist and physicist (1749–1819)
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James David Forbes
Scottish physicist and glaciologist (1809–1868)
John Scott Haldane
British physiologist (1860–1936)
Robert T. A. Innes
British astronomer (1861–1933)
W. V. D. Hodge
British mathematician (1903–1975)
Archibald Geikie
British geologist (1835–1924)
George Arnott Walker Arnott
British botanist (1799-1868)
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet
Scottish ornithologist and naturalist (1800–1874)
Robert Edmond Grant
anatomist/zoologist (1793-1874)
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar (*1860 – †1948)
John Anderson
Scottish anatomist and zoologist who worked in India as the curator of the Indian Museum (1833–1900)
Robert Jameson
British scientist; (1774-1854)
Balfour Stewart
British scientist (1828–1887)
John Hutton Balfour
British botanist (1808-1884)
James Geikie
British geologist (1839–1915)
James Short
British mathematician (1710-1768)
Andrew Dickson Murray
British scientist (1812-1878)
Lesley Yellowlees
British chemist
James Anderson
Scottish economist
John George Bartholomew
British cartographer (1860-1920) and founder of Edinburgh Geographical Institute and later Collins Bartholomew (1860–1920)
James Hector
Scottish born New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon (1834-1907)
Alexander Crum Brown
Scottish organic chemist (1838–1922)
Robert Sibbald
Scottish physician and antiquary (1641-1722)
Thomas Charles Hope
British physician and chemist
John Walker
Scottish natural historian (1731-1803)
Patrick Russell
Scottish surgeon and naturalist in India (1726-1805)
Nelson Annandale
Scottish entomologist, anthropologist, and herpetologist (1876–1924)
Thomas Davidson
British palaeontologist (1817–1885)
Sheila Scott Macintyre
Scottish mathematician (1910–1960)
Thomas Anderson
Scottish botanist (1832-1870)
John Keill
Scottish mathematician
John Gillies
Scottish botanist (1792-1834)
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James Anderson
Scottish physician and botanist (1738-1809)
George Taylor thumbnail
George Taylor
British botanist (1904-1993)
Ramsay Traquair
Scottish palaeoichthyologist (1840-1912)
John Hope
British physician and botanist (1725-1786)
Thomas Archibald Sprague
British botanist (1877-1958)
Walter Elliot
naturalist (1803-1887)
Mungo Ponton
British photography pioneer (1801–1880)
Norman Boyd Kinnear
Scottish zoologist and ornithologist (1882-1957)
George Combe
Scottish phrenologist
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Adam White
Scottish zoologist (1817–1878)
James Peter Hill
British zoologist (1873–1954)
Alan Andrew Watson
British physicist
James Gall
British priest (1808–1895)
Alexander Russell
Scottish physician and naturalist; (1714-1768)
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Ian Charleson Hedge
Scottish botanist (1928–2022)
William Gregory
Scottish physician and chemist (1803–1858)
Thomas David Anderson
British astronomer
William Abbott Herdman
Scottish marine zoologist, oceanographer (1858–1924)
William Serle
Scottish ornithologist
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George Forbes
British astronomer
William Aitcheson Haswell
Scottish-Australian zoologist (1854-1925)