Scientist of the Day

Leland W. Sprinkle, an American engineer and organist, was born on Aug. 13, 1908.  Not much is known about Sprinkle’s early life, except that his...

Ernst Boris Chain, a German/British biochemist, died Aug. 12, 1979, at the age of 73. Chain was Jewish, born in Berlin, and he sensed, when Hitler...

George of Trebizond, a Greek scholar sometimes referred to as Georgius Trapezuntius, was born in Crete around 1395. His ancestors had moved to...

Greenwich Observatory was founded on Aug. 10, 1675, when the first foundation stone was laid.

Hipparchus of Nicaea, an Ancient Greek astronomer, was born about 187 BCE and died sometime after 127 BCE.  Because Nicaea was in Bythnia (up on...

Josef Pallenberg, a German sculptor, animalier, and proto-paleoartist, was born on Aug. 6, 1882, in Cologne. He started drawing animals at the zoo...

Charles Octavius Morgan, nearly always known by his middle name Octavius, died Aug. 5, 1888, at the age of 84. Morgan was a British political...

Walther Flemming, a German cell biologist, died on Aug. 4, 1905, at the age of 62.

Clifford D. Simak, an American science fiction writer and newspaperman, was born Aug. 3, 1904, in Millville, Wisconsin.

John Ericsson, a Swedish/American engineer, was born on July 31, 1803, in Långban, a tiny village in Värmland, Sweden.

Guillaume Rondelet, a French physician and naturalist, died on July 30, 1566, at the age of 58.

William Beebe, an American ornithologist, traveler, deep-sea explorer, and author, was born in Brooklyn on July 29, 1877.