The Roslin Institute research centre：Dolly the Sheep (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003)
Dolly，a ewe, was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. She was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, and lived there until her death when she was 6. Her birth was announced on 22 February 1997. When Dolly was cloned in 1996 from a cell taken from a six-year-old ewe, she became the center of much controversy that still exists today.
Sir James W Black (1924- )
Sir James W Black, is a Scottish pharmacologist who invented beta-blocker and received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for his landmark discoveries. Sir James Black contributed to basic scientific and clinical knowledge in cardiology, both as a physician and as a basic scientist. His invention of propranolol that revolutionized the medical management of angina pectoris, is considered to be one of the most important contributions to clinical medicine and pharmacology of the 20th century.
Sir James is the Chancellor of the University of Dundee.
John Logie Baird 1888-1946
Born in Helensburgh, he was a student of electrical engineering. In 1922 he began television research with makeshift equipment. In 1926 he first demonstrated television to a number of scientists in his flat in London.
Sir Alexander Fleming 1881-1955
Fleming was born in Lochfield, nr Darvel in Ayrshire and moved to London to study medicine. When serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War, he witnessed many soldiers dying from infected wounds and this experience drove his interest in finding an agent to combat bacterial infections. He achieved his goal in 1928 with his discovery of penicillin although the drug could not be produced commercially for another 15 years. Fleming was awarded the Noble Prize and many other awards for his pioneering work although he never patented his discoveries in the hope that this would allow their cheap and plentiful supply.
James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879
Born in Edinburgh, Maxwell made important discoveries in the field of theoretical physics and is hailed as one of the 19th century's greatest scientists. His researches in the fields of electromagnetism and the kinetic theory of gases laid the foundation for the work of other scientific giants such as Einstein
Sir James Dewar 1842-1923
Dewar was born in Kincardine. He invented the vacuum flask whilst investigating the behaviour of gases at low temperature. He is also credited with inventing cordite.
James Watt 1736-1819
Born in Greenock, Watt is celebrated as the inventor who made the Industrial Revolution possible. He did not in fact invent the steam engine as such but in 1769 patented an engine with a separate steam condenser and it was this that proved the breakthrough in harnessing the power of steam for industrial use. He subsequently refined this and related inventions in conjunction with his partners, Matthew Boulton and William Murdock. Watt devised the original calculation to define 'horsepower' and the unit of electrical power was named after him.
John Napier 1550-1617
Napier was born in Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh, which is now part of the university named after him. An eminent mathematician, he is regarded as the inventor of the system of logarithms. He was also interested in military science and invented several war machines including a forerunner of the armoured tank and the submarine.
