Famous Scots 
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” – Thomas Carlyle.
Can you imagine a world without neon lights, television, the humble vacuum flask, petrol, your telephone, penicillin, surgery and medicine.
The following pages, adapted from ‘A Pocket Guide to Famous Scots’ first published in 1979 by William Weir Gilmour, list Scots who were pioneers in these fields and many more like banking, political economy and geology. Without their genius, the boons of modern science we take so much for granted might not be available.
Scots in search of their identity will take pride in discovering something of their country’s illustrious past. The visitor to
It may be that the most impressive thing about this record is that it has been achieved by a Nation with a population which has never reached six millions.
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