| John Napier (1550-1617), Edinburgh – Invented Napier’s Bones abacus (1617) and logarithms, and popularised use of the decimal point |
| George Cleghorn (1716-1794), Edinburgh – Discovered quinine as a cure for malaria (1740s) |
| John Roebuck (1718-1794), Edinburgh – Discovered sulphuric acid (1746) |
| Dr James Lind (1716-1794), Edinburgh – Did the first ever clinical trial, showing citrus fruits were a cure for scurvy (1747) |
| Janet and James Keiller, Dundee – Invented marmalade (1797) |
| James Watt (1736-1819), Greenock – Mechanical engineer who revolutionised steam engines |
| Thomas Telford (1757-1834), Glendinning – Renowned iron bridge engineer and canal builder |
| John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836), Ayr – Invented macadamized road coverings (Tarmac) (1820) |
| William Nicol (1768-1851), Edinburgh – Discovered paleobiology (1815) and polarization (1828) |
| Thomas Graham (1805-1869), Glasgow – Discovered Graham’s Law in chemistry (1831) |
| James Chalmers (1782-1853), Arbroath – Invented adhesive postage stamps (1838 |
| Alexander Bain (1818-1903), Aberdeen – Patented the first fax machine (1843) |
| Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), Edinburgh – Discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform (1847). Physician to Queen Victoria |
| William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, (1824-1907), Glasgow – Developer of the Kelvin Temperature Scale (1848) |
| James Young (1811-1883), Glasgow – Discovered paraffin (1850) |
| Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), Edinburgh – Published Roget’s Thesaurus (1852) |
| Alexander Wood (1817-1884), Edinburgh – Physician who invented the first hypodermic syringe (1853) |
| James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Edinburgh – Developed the electromagnetic theory (1864) |
| Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Edinburgh – Inventor of the telephone (1876) |
| John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921), Ayrshire – Invented pneumatic tyres (1890) |
| Sir James Dewar (1842-1923), Kincardine-on-Forth – Inventor of the vacuum flask (1892) |
| David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929), Arbroath – Founder of Buick Motor Company (1903) |
| James Harrison (1816-1893), Dunbartonshire – Pioneer in field of refrigeration |
| John Logie Baird (1888-1946), Helensburgh – Inventor of the television (1925) |
| Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955), Ayrshire - Pharmacologist who discovered Penicillin (1928) |
| Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892-1973), Angus – Inventor of radar (1935) |
| Roslin Institute, Edinburgh – Created the first cloned mammal in Dolly the Sheep (lived 1996-2003) |
| Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Dunfermline – Philanthropist with an emphasis on local libraries, world peace and scientific research |
Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and TherapeuticsEdinburgh, Scotland 12 - 15th July 2009
