Magnus Maclean

The Magnus Maclean Memorial Prize given to students of electrical engineering is named in his honour.

Re-entering the University of Glasgow in 1881 with a Lorimer bursary for Mathematics, and a London Highland Society scholarship.

He studied Natural Philosophy (Physics) and Mathematics at Glasgow University graduating MA around 1883.

[2] From at least 1880 he was the personal assistant to William Thomson, Lord Kelvin in his electrical experiments.

[3] In 1899 he became Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow.