| |  | Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe... |  | Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. - July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering political economist.... |  | James Watt (19 January 1736 - 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the... |  | Professor John Playfair FRSE (March 10, 1748 - July 20, 1819) was a Scottish scientist. Playfair was professor of mathematics and later professor... |  | Peter Guthrie Tait (April 28, 1831 - July 4, 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook... |  | Professor Tom M Devine (Thomas Martin Devine) OBE FRSE FBA (born Motherwell, Scotland 1945) is a well-known and widely published Scottish... |  | Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin (March 25 1833 - June 12 1885) was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his... |  | Sir James Alfred Ewing (27 March 1855 - 7 January 1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties... |  | James David Forbes (April 20, 1809 - December 31, 1868) was a Scottish physicist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat, seismology and... |  | Reverend John Jamieson, D.D. (March 3, 1759 - July 12, 1838) was a Scottish lexicographer, son of a minister, born in Glasgow. He was educated at... | |
