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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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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
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John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
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John Logie Baird
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
Joseph Black thumbnail
Joseph Black
Scottish physicist and chemist (1728–1799)
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James Dewar
Scottish chemist and physicist (1842–1923)
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John Playfair
Scottish scientist and mathematician
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Peter Guthrie Tait
Scottish mathematical physicist (1831–1901)
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John Kerr
Scottish physicist and pioneer in the field of electro-optics (1824–1907)
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James David Forbes
Scottish physicist and glaciologist (1809–1868)
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John Leslie
British mathematician and physicist (1766–1832)
Alfred Ewing
British physicist and engineer (1855-1935)
John Robison
Scottish physicist and mathematician (1739–1805)
Balfour Stewart
British scientist (1828–1887)
Ronald Drever
British physicist (1931-2017)
John Aitken
Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer (1839-1919)
William Nicol
Scottish geologist and physicist (1770-1851)
Cargill Gilston Knott
British mathematician and physicist
Alexander Macfarlane
British mathematician and physicist (1851–1913)
Thomas Charles Hope
British physician and chemist
John Anderson
scientist, philosopher, and educator of the Scottish Enlightenment; (1726-1796)
John James Waterston
Scottish civil engineer and physicist (1811–1883)
Andrew Gordon
British physicist
Charles Chree
British physicist (1860-1928)
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet
British physicist (1831-1915)
Katherine Clerk Maxwell
British physicist
Andrew Gray
British mathematician and physician
A. Catrina Bryce
Scottish electrical engineer
John F. Allen
Canadian physicist (1908–2001)
Malcolm Longair
British astronomer (1941-)
John Allan Broun
John Allan Broun FRS (21 September 1817 – 22 November 1879) was a Scottish magnetician and meteorologist
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Andrew R. Liddle
British astrophysicist and cosmologist
William Peddie
Scottish physicist and applied mathematician (1861-1946)
Marion Ross
Scottish physicist
William Cochran
Scottish physicist (1922–2003)
Heather Reid
British weather forecaster
Nigel Stuart Lockyer
Director of TRIUMF