Research

1776 – Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations

1848 – Lord Kelvin proposes an absolute scale of temperature, now called the Kelvin Scale

1867 – Joseph Lister publishes research on the use of antiseptic in surgery

1879 – first successful removal of a brain tumour by William Macewen

1895 – Sir William Ramsay discovers helium

1896 – John Macintyre opens the world’s first x-ray department

1898 – Sir William Ramsay discovers neon, krypton and xenon

1913 – Frederick Soddy discovers isotopes

1926 – John Logie Baird invents television

1936 – John Boyd Orr publishes link between poverty, poor diet and ill health

1958 – Ian Donald shows the world the first ultrasound image of a foetus

1958 – discovery of first beta-blocking drug to treat coronary heart disease by Sir James Black

1967 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers radio pulsars

1974 – Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett create the Glasgow Coma Scale

1995 – James Shepherd leads a landmark study on use of statins to prevent heart attacks

2009 – A team of Glasgow researchers, led by Christian Kay, publishes the world’s first Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

2010 – Keith Muir leads the first fully regulated clinical trial of stem cell therapy for stroke patients

2015 – Sheila Rowan leads the Glasgow team that first detected gravitational waves