Impressive list P1M.

Now the science teacher comes out in me. Scotland is famous for it's long history of scientific achiement. It has always been a place where science has flourished, even before it began to be encourage in other parts of the world. We owe many of our scientific achievements to the Scots! So here are some birthdays of some famous scientists from Scotland.

January 19 - Birth of James Watt an inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were largely responsible for the industial revolution
February 15 - Birth of Robert Angus Smith who discovered and coined the term acid rain.
April 13 - Birth of Robert Watson-Watt considered to be the inventor of RADAR
April 16 - Birth of Joseph Black the discoverer of Carbon Dioxide and formulated a theory on latent heat.
June 26 - Birth of The Right Honourable William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin one of the most famous physicists of the 19th century. The Kelvin scale of absolute temperature still bears his name.
July 5 - Birth of Dolly the Sheep cloned at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.
October 2 - Birth of William Ramsay who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904
December 21 - Birth of Robert Brown discoverer of Brownian Motion