page_title: List of University of Glasgow people
section_title: Mathematics, physical sciences and engineering
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Glasgow people / Sciences / Mathematics, physical sciences and engineering
caption_attribution_description: the noted Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer
context_page_description: The following list of University of Glasgow people provides a selection of the well-known people who have studied or taught at the University of Glasgow since its inception in 1451. Historical lists of Chancellors, Rectors and Principals of the University are contained in those offices' respective articles.
context_section_description: John Anderson, natural philosopher and founder of the Anderson's Institution in 1796 (predecessor to the University of Strathclyde)
  John Logie Baird, inventor of television
  Frank Barnwell, aeronautical engineer and pilot of first powered flight in Scotland in 1909
  Bruce C. Berndt, mathematician
  John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
  A. Catrina Bryce, physicist, electrical engineer
  Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist
  Ethel Currie, geologist
  Henry Dyer, engineer
  William Gemmell Cochran, statistician
  Bernard Parker Haigh, engineer
  Sam Karunaratne, electrical engineer and Sri Lankan academic
  John Kerr, physicist
  Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
  Bill Napier, astronomer and novelist
  Percy Sinclair Pilcher, pioneer of powered flight
  Robert Alexander Rankin, mathematician
  William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer and physicist
  John Scott Russell, naval engineer
  Robert Simson, mathematician
  William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist
  Gavin Vernon, engineer, known for removing the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey
  James Watt, mathematician and engineer
  John Robison, physicist and mathematician. Inventor of the siren.
  Hugh Blackburn, a member of the Cambridge Apostles, inventor of the Blackburn pendulum.
  Gillian Wright, astronomer and director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre
caption: James Watt
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