Scientist of the Day

Basil J.W. Brown, an English amateur archaeologist, was born on Jan. 22, 1888, in Bucklesham, Suffolk, a few miles east of Ipswich. He grew up on...

Robert S. Williamson, an American Army officer, topographical engineer, and explorer, was born Jan. 21, 1825, in Oxford, New York.

Lodovico delle Colombe, a Florentine Aristotelian philosopher, was born on Jan. 20, 1565 (perhaps).  There is no known portrait.  He is best known...

Samuel Stutchbury, an English naturalist and museum curator, was born Jan 15, 1798. Stutchbury is the pioneer dinosaur hunter of whom no one has...

Maria Merian, a German/Dutch artist and naturalist, died Jan. 13, 1716, at age 69.

Lazzaro Spallanzani, an Italian biologist, geologist, and priest, was born on Jan. 12, 1729, in Scandiano in north-central Italy, near Regio Emilia...

Peter Schoeffer, a German printer, was born around 1425 and died in 1503. He worked mainly in Mainz, and he began his printing career as an...

Harry Govier Seeley, an English paleontologist, died Jan. 8, 1909, at the age of 69. He was born in 1839, 15 years after William Buckland announced...

Thomas Coltrin Keefer, a Canadian civil engineer, died Jan. 7, 1915, at the age of 93. He was raised in northern Ontario, what they called back...

Giacomo Costantino Beltrami, an Italian adventurer, died Jan. 6, 1855, at age 75. Born in Bergamo, Italy, he prospered as a magistrate during the...

Umberto Eco, an Italian historian, semiotician, and novelist, was born Jan. 5, 1932.  Eco was a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna...

Robert Boyle, an Irish/English experimental natural philosopher and chemist, died in London on Dec. 30, 1691, at the age of 64. Boyle is well known...