scientist, recipient of Ekushey Padak. Merbai Ardesir Vakil, physician, first Asian woman to graduate from a Scottish university Biology Sir John Arbuthnott, Scottish microbiologist, and Principal of the University of Strathclyde (1991-2000) David Douglas, botanist Alan Gemmell, Professor of Biology, Keele University 1950-77 Robert Thomson Leiper, parasitologist and helminthologist Sheina Marshall, marine biologist Muriel Robertson, protozoologist and bacteriologist at the Lister Institute Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Thomas Hopkirk, botanist and lithographer. John Hutton Balfour, Professor of Botany also becoming Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist. Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Professor of Botany and Sherardian Professor of Botany Oxford. John Hope, Scottish physician and botanist. Best known as an early supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification. David Campbell, Professor of Materia Medica at Aberdeen University from 1930 to 1959. Won the Military Cross in 1918 due to his bravery serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Heather M. Ferguson, FRSE Professor Professor of Medical Entomology and Disease Ecology, co-chairs the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group on malaria Guido Pontecorvo, the University's first Professor of Genetics Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, one of the first geneticists to provide a diagnostic and counselling service to patients with genetic conditions. Anne Ferguson-Smith, Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics. Percy Wragg Brian, Regius Professor of Botany. Chemistry Thomas Andrews, chemist and physicist, received the Royal Medal in 1844 for his work on the heat developed in chemical actions Joseph Black, physicist and chemist Leroy (Lee) Cronin, chemist Thomas Graham, chemist George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of stable liquid crystals, awarded Kyoto Prize and Leverhulme Medal Jōkichi Takamine, chemist Alexander Todd, Baron Todd, chemist Thomas Thomson, Regius Professor of Chemistry, gave silicon its name Thomas Charles Hope, proved the existence of the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's experiment Mathematics, physical sciences and engineering 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,