America celebrates its long links with Scotland http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3628 John Paul Jones Douglas MacArthur John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration Inventors, Engineers and Academics: Thomas Addis, physician and scientist Alexander Graham Bell, inventor James Blair, founder of the College of William and Mary James McGill Buchanan, economist Joseph Campbell, professor of comparative mythology Thomas Edison, inventor Alexander Garden (naturalist), botanist whose name lives on in the Gardenia flower, though he was also a physician and zoologist John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer, road-builder and inventor. Robert Burns Woodward, Nobel Prize-winning chemist.