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...in honor of [[James Watt]] (1736–1819), an 18th-century [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[inventor]], [[mechanical engineer]], and [[chemist]] who improved the [ ...S#Practical CGS units|practical system of units]] were named after leading physicists, Siemens proposed that ''watt'' might be an appropriate name for a unit of ...

...om Irish mythology |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/scottish-bard-ossian-fabricated-from-irish-mythology-1.2838550 |work= |location= |ac ...ses/2012/07/120725090933.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-14|title=Physicists study Homer's Iliad and other classics for hidden truths |website=Science D ...

...been born in India, De Morgan used to say that he was neither English nor Scottish nor Irish, but a Briton "unattached," using the technical term applied to a ...o and distinct from scientific reasoning; on the other hand, argued by the Scottish philosopher [[Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet|Sir William Hamilton]], Wha ...

...562]. ([[Macquorn Rankine]] in the same year used the same symbol. The two physicists were in correspondence at the time, so that it is difficult to say which of ...Heat transfer|transfer of heat]] was explained by the motion of particles. Scottish physicist and chemist [[Joseph Black]] wrote: "Many have supposed that heat ...

...late 1970s were a period of growing public interest in black holes and the physicists who were studying them. Hawking was regularly interviewed for print and tel ...rgravity]] as the leading theory to solve many of the outstanding problems physicists were studying.{{sfn|Ferguson|2011|pp=93–94}} His promotion coincided with a ...

[[File:NIST-F2 cesium fountain atomic clock.jpg|thumb|NIST physicists Steve Jefferts (foreground) and Tom Heavner with the NIST-F2 caesium founta The Scottish physicist [[James Clerk Maxwell]] proposed measuring time with the vibratio ...

...re perfectly polarized. This special angle of incidence is named after the Scottish physicist [[David Brewster|Sir David Brewster]] (1781–1868).<ref>David Brew ...|author=G. Falkovich |year=2011 |title=Fluid Mechanics (A short course for physicists) |url=http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6173728/?site_locale=e ...