George Murray Burnett FRSE FRSA FRIC LLD (1921–1980) was a Scottish mathematician and chemist.
His family moved to London in his childhood and he was educated at Mile-End School before again relocating to Aberdeen in Scotland.
Here he attended Robert Gordon's College before being accepted by Aberdeen University studying chemistry and mathematics.
In 1945 he moved to Birmingham University serving as a lecturer in chemistry there for ten years.
[4] A building on the Heriot-Watt campus is named George Burnett Hall in his honour.