James Clerk Maxwell: (1831-1879) Scottish physicist, responsible for the theory that electricity and light are the same in their fundamental nature.

Pfitz is a novel by Scottish physicist and author Andrew Crumey.

Balfour Stewart (1 November 1828 - 19 December 1887) was a Scottish physicist.

April 16 - Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist (died 1799)

The Kerr effect was discovered in 1875 by John Kerr, a Scottish physicist.

June 18 - John Waterston (born 1811), Scottish physicist and civil engineer (drowned).

December 11 - David Brewster, Scottish physicist (died 1868)

All of this has come too late to benefit the fax's inventor, the Scottish physicist Alexander Bain.

The Scottish physicist sat at the head of the table, Molina at its foot.

John Waterston, Scottish physicist and civil engineer (died 1883)