Dr Marie-Claire Parker discusses the importance of J Monteath Robertson's work in x-ray crystallography and his resolution of the 'heavy atom' problem

Widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of his generation, Edwin Morgan was the first Poet Laureate for Glasgow and National Poet for Scotland.

Ian Donald was an outstanding obstetrician and inventor of the first diagnostic ultrasound machine.

In the late 1950s George Urquhart, William Mulligan, Frank Jennings, William Jarrett and Ian McIntyre, all members of staff at the Glasgow Veterinary School, developed the world's first vaccine against a parasitic infection in either humans or animals -- known as the Dictol Group, the five developed a vaccine against the lung worm parasite in cattle, which was a significant problem for farmers.

One of the leading industrial relations experts of his day, Donald Robertson, together with Alec Cairncross, pioneered multidisciplinary social and economic research