The answers to the quiz questions in the August 2022 newsletter. 1) David Brewster, 19th-century Physicist and ex-Principal of the University, invented which popular children's optical toy (yet made no money from it)? The Kaleidoscope 2) Which great engineering alumnus went on to design and build one of Scotland's great structures, dubbed one of the "Seven Wonders of the Industrial World"? Robert Stevenson 3) What was the structure built by person #2? The Bell Rock Lighthouse 4) A building in the Central campus is named after the University's first female science graduate (mathematics and natural philosophy), who was also a pioneering feminist and pacifist. (She was a delegate at the 1919 Paris Peace conference, and went on to become one of the first human rights lawyers.) Chrystal Macmillan 5) Who was Einstein's favourite scientist, and one of the greatest minds of the nineteenth century? (A KB building is named after him...). James Clerk Maxwell 6) Which alumna -- noted for her teaching and scientific biography skills -- also enchanted millions of children with her "Ladybird Book of the Night Sky" Mary Brück This article was published on 2024-05-20
