Alexander Bain Alexander Bain was one of the most prolific inventors of the 19th century, and is one of the least remembered. His inventions are all the more remarkable given his background. Born in 1810 near Watten in Caithness...
Category - People and Ideas
A Roman Frontier in north-east Scotland?
Over nearly fifty years Ian Keillar worked to build a picture of the Roman relationship with Scotland, bringing to the task the discipline of his profession of engineering and the experience of his wartime service in the Middle...
Tim took them through
On World Whisky Day, 16 May, we send greetings to a friend of many years, Dr Tim Dolan in Aberlour...
A Shining Star
Williamina Paton Fleming (1857-1911) This year is the 125th anniversary of the discovery of the...
Eddington’s universe
Whenever the poet George Mackay Brown reorganised his library, getting rid of some of the...
Bill and the Mars rover
Bill Graham started his working life at the coal face – as an apprentice mechanic of the mine for...
A Thinker for Today
He was born exactly 100 years ago today, and even in his own profession of physics he is not as...
Scotland’s Time Lords
Today we have a comprehensive view of how the Earth works – the modern paradigm of Plate Tectonics...
Georges Lemaître – The Father of the Big Bang
In the 1920s, astronomers knew that the universe was not static, but expanding. Most, including...
Professor Archie E Roy: a great man of science
Warm and human, first and foremost interested in people, a fantastically popular lecturer, a...