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The search has returned 27 plaques
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Alexander Bain
Inventor of the fax machine and electric clock
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Charles Glover Barkla
1917 Nobel Prize winner for Physics
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Max Born
Key developer of quantum mechanics
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James Boswell
Author, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson
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Mary Brunton
Best-selling early 19th Century author of novels centred on strong female characters.
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Mary Burton
Social and educational reformer, suffragist and first female director of Heriot-Watt College.
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Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell
A celebrated Scottish colourist
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Frederick Douglass
African American author, philosopher, anti-slavery activist and statesman
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The Edinburgh Seven
Britain’s first female medical students
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Faed Family of Artists
Two generations of celebrated painters and engravers
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Cicely Fairfield AKA Rebecca West
Lifelong political activist, renowned writer and reporter on the Nuremberg trials
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Susan Ferrier
Popular nineteenth-century novelist