James Watt
Name : Watt Born : 1736 Died : 1819 Category : Scientists and Inventors Finest Moment : Devising the steam condenser during a walk on Glasgow Green
View ArticleJames Hutton
Name : Hutton Born : 1726 Died : 1797 Category : Science Finest Moment : Publication of Theory of the Earth
View ArticleJames Gregory
Name : Gregory Born : 1638 Died : 1675 Category : Scientists and Inventors Finest Moment : Invention of the reflecting telescope, 1633
View ArticleJames Dewar
Name : Dewar Born : 1842 Died : 1923 Category : Scientists and Inventors Finest Moment : Invention of cordite, 1889
View ArticleJames Clerk Maxwell
Name : Maxwell Born : 1831 Died : 1879 Category : Science Finest Moment : Derivation of his four field equations
View ArticleJames Beaumont Neilson
Name : Neilson Born : 1792 Died : 1865 Category : Scientists and Inventors Finest Moment : Successful demonstration of the superiority of a hot air blast furnace
View ArticleDr John Hope
Name : Hope Born : 1725 Died : 1786 Category : Scientists and Inventors Finest Moment : Creation of a Botanic Garden on Leith Walk, Edinburgh
View ArticleDavid Brewster
Name : Brewster Born : 1781 Died : 1868 Category : Scientists and Inventors Finest Moment : Publication of Treatise on Optics (1831)
View ArticleCharles Thomson Rees Wilson
Name : Wilson Born : 1869 Died : 1959 Category : Scientists and Inventors Finest Moment : First photographs of subatomic particle activity in a Cloud Chamber (1911)
View ArticleCharles Macintosh
Name : Macintosh Born : 1766 Died : 1834 Category : Scientists and Inventors Finest Moment : Observing rubber dissolving
View ArticleAlexander Monro
Name : Hardie Born : 1697 Died : 1767 Category : Science Finest Moment : Founding a teaching hospital in Edinburgh, in 1729 Set up the first teaching hospital in Edinburgh, and was also the first...
View ArticleAlexander Graham Bell
Name : Bell Born : 1847 Died : 1922 Category : Scientists and Inventors Finest Moment : First words over a telephone line
View ArticleJames Hutton - founder of geology
James Hutton (1726–1797), a Scottish farmer and naturalist, is regarded as the founder of modern geology. Above all. he was a great observer of the world around him, but more importantly, he then...
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