Complex sentence: It was named after the Scottish naval engineer John Scott Russell in a ceremony on 12 July 1995, who had discovered the soliton or solitary wave near Bridge 11 on the Union Canal in 1834.
Split into simpler sentences: It was named after the Scottish naval engineer John Scott Russell in a ceremony on 12 July 1995. Russell had discovered the soliton or solitary wave near Bridge 11 on the Union Canal in 1834.