{"id":300,"date":"2019-12-18T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/?page_id=300"},"modified":"2022-04-06T21:17:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T21:17:20","slug":"scotlandscience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/pw\/science\/scotlandscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland and\u00a0science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Discover more about Scottish scientists<\/span>
\nin the Library catalogue<\/span>
\n<\/em>in school<\/a>\u00a0 OR\u00a0 at home<\/a>.<\/h5>\n
Click here for the Scottish scientist investigation<\/a><\/em>.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The scientists, inventors, doctors and engineers listed below were either born in Scotland or chose to work in Scotland. All have made discoveries or important improvements to scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n

There are hundreds of others to be discovered in the Library resources and in the links below.<\/p>\n

Biology and medicine<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Charlotte Auerbach<\/a>, \u00a0Ian Donald<\/a>, Alexander Fleming<\/a>, Joseph Lister<\/a>, James Young Simpson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chemistry<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Joseph Black<\/a>, James Dewar<\/a>, Ruth Pirret<\/a>, William Ramsay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Engineering<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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James Blyth<\/a>, Victoria Drummond<\/a>, Thomas Telford<\/a>, James Watt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Geology<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Maria Gordon<\/a>, James Hutton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mathematics<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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John Napier<\/a>, Mary Somerville<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Physics and astronomy<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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David Brewster<\/a>, James Clerk Maxwell<\/a>, Williamina Fleming<\/a>, Lord Kelvin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Inventions<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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John Logie Baird<\/a>, Alexander Graham Bell<\/a>, Robert Watson Watt<\/a>, James Young<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More useful links<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Scottish science hall of fame<\/a><\/p>\n

Scottish engineering hall of fame<\/a><\/p>\n

Science on the streets<\/a><\/p>\n

Scotland and science<\/a><\/p>\n

Scottish Women of Science<\/a><\/p>\n

Science History Institute – Historical biographies<\/a><\/p>\n

Science Museum<\/a><\/p>\n

Scottish Biography<\/a><\/p>\n

University of Glasgow People<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you know?<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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The word scientist<\/em> was first used to describe Mary Somerville, a Scottish scientist and mathematician. Until that point, scientists were called ‘men of science’.<\/p>\n

Further reading<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Discover these titles and more
\n<\/em><\/span>through the Library catalogue<\/span>
\n<\/em>in school<\/a>\u00a0 OR\u00a0 at home<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Library catalogue has a Quick List for Scottish science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Edinburgh was famous for its medical school in the 19th century, but also for the body-snatchers, people who would raid graveyards for bodies to sell to the university doctors.<\/p>\n

Fleshmarket<\/a><\/em> by Nicola Morgan<\/a> tells the story of Robbie, a young boy whose mother dies after an operation without anaesthetic, and decides to get revenge on the doctor responsible. Library copy available<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seventeen coffins<\/em> by Philip Caveney<\/a> is a time travelling mystery also set in 19th century Edinburgh, where people are disappearing. Library copy available<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The mystery of the miniature coffins<\/a><\/em> from the National Museum of Scotland explains more about these intriguing discoveries.<\/p>\n

Robert Louis Stevenson<\/a> grew up in Edinburgh hearing all about the infamous body-snatchers but also the amazing discoveries made by the doctors as a result. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde<\/em> is a story about a well-respected scientist whose experiments bring a hidden side of his personality into being, The Library has the original short story<\/a> and a graphic novel version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world by Rachel Ignotofsky provides more stories about amazing scientists.<\/p>\n

Rebel science<\/p>\n

Literacy and Language<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Numeracy<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Health and Wellbeing<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Rights Respecting Schools<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Developing the Young Workforce<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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More to explore<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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X-ray of Joseph Lister’s hand, 1896<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discover more about Scottish scientists in the Library catalogue in school\u00a0 OR\u00a0 at home. Click here for the Scottish scientist investigation. The scientists, inventors, doctors and engineers listed below were either born in Scotland or chose to work in Scotland. All have made discoveries or important improvements to scientific knowledge. There are hundreds of others … Continue reading Scotland and\u00a0science<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-300","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions\/3424"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}