Scientist of the Day

Eduard Rüppell, a German naturalist and explorer, was born on Nov. 20, 1794, in Frankfurt am Main.

Bruno Bearzi, a Florentine foundryman, was born on Nov. 19, 1894, in Palmanova in northeast Italy.  Bearzi was one of those responsible for...

The first Westminster Bridge across the Thames in London opened on Nov. 18, 1750. It took 13 years to build, and was opposed by many interests...

Frans Post, a Dutch landscape painter, was born Nov. 17, 1612, in Haarlem.

Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, a French geologist with an interest in chemistry, died Nov. 14, 1886, at age 66.

William Kennett Loftus, an English archaeologist, was born on Nov. 13, 1820, in Linton, Kent, not far from Maidstone, where...

Thaddeus William Harris, an American entomologist and librarian, was born Nov. 12, 1795, in Dorchester, Mass.

Gideon Algernon Mantell, an English surgeon, fossil hunter, and geologist, died Nov. 10, 1852, at age 62.   Mantell is best known for discovering...

Jean-André Deluc (sometimes de Luc), a Swiss physicist and geologist, died in Windsor, England, on Nov. 7, 1817, at the age of 90. He had been born...

James Bowdoin II, an American statesman and would-be scientist, died Nov. 6, 1790, at age 64; he was born Aug. 7, 1726. Bowdoin inherited wealth...

Jeremiah Farrell, a mathematician, recreational mathematician, and puzzler, was born on Dec. 12, 1937, in Hastings, Nebraska.

The ATS-3 communications satellite was launched aboard an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral on Nov. 4, 1967. It was successfully inserted into...