Stevenson Macadam FRSE FIC FCS FSSA (27 April 1829 – 24 January 1901) was a Scottish scientist, analytical chemist, lecturer, and academic author.
He was a founding member of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain (now the Royal Society of Chemistry) and a founding member of the Society of Chemical Industry.
He was also a President of the Royal Scottish Society of the Arts.
He was a prominent lecturer in chemistry at institutions in Edinburgh, including Edinburgh University and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh veterinary colleges.
He also had a large analytical chemical consulting practise.
He was part of a small dynasty of Scottish chemical scientists including his elder half-brother William Macadam, brother Dr.
John Macadam and two sons, William Ivison Macadam and Stevenson J.
C.
G.
Macadam and granddaughter Elison A.
Macadam.
Stevenson Macadam was born at North Bank in Glasgow on 27 April 1829, one of four sons and four daughters (the eldest being a half brother).
He married on 23 April 1855 in Neilston, Renfrew, Scotland Jessie Andrew Ivison