Famous Scottish Victorians By Bobbi

Alexander Fleming(1881-1955) Born Darvel, East Ayrshire. Biologist, pharmacologist and botanist who discovered penicillin. Later shared Nobel Prize in Medicine (1945) with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

John Logie Baird (1888 – 1946) He was a Scottish engineer and inventor, who demonstrated the first televised moving objects, the first transatlantic TV broadcast, and the first colour TV in 1941.

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Scottish inventor, most notably credited with inventing the modern telephone. Alexander was brought up in Edinburgh Scotland. From an early age he had an inquisitive mind and became fascinated with acoustics and voice patterns. This interest in acoustics and communication was partly inspired by his mother’s growing deafness.

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) Physicist, born Edinburgh. Maxwell made a significant contribution to understanding electro-magnetism. His research in electricity and kinetics, laid the foundation for quantum physics.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) Scottish writer, physician and spiritualist best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories. “I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can’t all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. “

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