James Hutton

James Hutton

male, deceased (1797)
buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Old Style, New Style, Plutonism, Plutonist School, buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard…Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, From Edinburgh, Royal High School alumni, RoyalSocietyofEdinburgh, University of Paris alumni
James Hutton (3 June 1726 O.S. (14 June 1726 N.S.), Edinburgh, Scotland - 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, noted for formulating...
Adam Smith

Adam Smith

male, deceased (1790)
The Wealth of Nations, free markets, economics, Classical economist, Economist, philosopher…RoyalSocietyofEdinburgh, University of Washington, JD University of Washington, JD University of Washington 1990, Fellow of the Royal Society
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....

John Robison

male, deceased (1805)
professor, physicist, Scottish Enlightenment, inventor, Scottish, university of edinburgh…University of Glasgow, RoyalSocietyofEdinburgh, Academic of the University of Edinburgh, Board of Longitude
John Robison (February 4, 1739 - January 30, 1805) was a Scottish physicist and inventor. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of...
Ian Wilmut

Ian Wilmut

male, 65 years old
Academic scandal, University of Cambridge, Alumni of Darwin College, Cambridge, Darwin College, Warwick, Ph.D.…Academic of the University of Edinburgh, Alumni of the University of Nottingham, university of edinburgh, university of nottingham, Department of Gene Expression
IAN WILMUT, professor and Head of the Department of Gene Expression and Development at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, is uniquely...
John Walker

John Walker

male, deceased (1803)
Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish, Naturalist, church of scotland, university of edinburgh, RoyalSocietyofEdinburgh…From Edinburgh, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, Academic of the University of Edinburgh
Revd Dr John Walker was Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803. He was a protege of the chemist William...
Henry Duncan

Henry Duncan

male, deceased (1846)
lloyds tsb, Trustee Savings Bank, Scottish, church of scotland, Old English poetry, minister…RoyalSocietyofEdinburgh, Royal Society, Free Church of Scotland, Disruption of 1843, Royal Museum
The Rev. Henry Duncan D.D. (8 October 1774 - 12 February 1846) was the minister of Ruthwell parish church in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and founded...
Roderick Murchison

Roderick Murchison

male, deceased (1871)
Old Dunelmian, FRS, buried at Brompton Cemetery, Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, durham, silurian…Member of the Académie des sciences, RoyalSocietyofEdinburgh, Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath, Order of the Bath, Geological Society of London
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison KCB FRS (19 February, 1792 - 22 October, 1871), was an influential Scottish geologist who first described and...