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William Diller Matthew – Scientist of the Day

William Diller Matthew, an American paleontologist, was born Feb. 19, 1871, in Saint John, New Brunswick. He did his graduate work in geology at Columbia University...

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Ernst Mach – Scientist of the Day

Ernst Mach, an Austrian physicist, was born Feb. 18, 1838, in Chilitz, Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic. He was educated at home until he was 14...

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Edward Arthur Milne – Scientist of the Day

Edward Arthur Milne (nearly always referred to as E. A. Milne), a British astrophysicist and cosmologist, was born Feb. 14, 1896, at Hull in Yorkshire...

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James Dwight Dana – Scientist of the Day

James Dwight Dana, an American geologist, was born Feb. 12, 1813, in Utica, New York. He was exactly 4 years younger than Charles Darwin, who...

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James Cowles Prichard – Scientist of the Day

James Cowles Prichard, an English physician and ethnologist, was born Feb. 11, 1786, in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Prichard was raised as a Quaker...

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Iridium 33 – Scientist of the Day

Iridium Satellite LLC was a private firm that began, around 1987, to plan a network of satellites to support portable satellite phones, allowing for...

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Sinclair Lewis – Scientist of the Day

Sinclair Lewis, an American novelist, was born Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. He attended Yale University and began writing novels in ...

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Charles Wheatstone – Scientist of the Day

Charles Wheatstone, an English physicist and inventor, was born Feb. 6, 1802, in Barnwood, Gloucestershire. His father was a music teacher, and ...

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William Rutter Dawes – Scientist of the Day

William Rutter Dawes, an English amateur astronomer, died Feb. 15, 1868, at the age of 68. His father was a schoolteacher. Young Dawes obtained...

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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz – Scientist of the Day

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, a Dutch physicist, died Feb. 4, 1928, at the age of 74, having been born in Arnhem on July 18, 1853.

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Gideon Mantell – Scientist of the Day

Gideon Mantell, an English surgeon and fossil collector, was born Feb. 3, 1790.

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Philip Glass – Scientist of the Day

Philip Glass, an American composer, was born Jan. 31, 1937. Glass is a prolific composer of a wide variety of music...

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T.G. Cumming – Scientist of the Day

T.G. Cumming has left few traces of his life as a surveyor. We do not know where or when he was born or died, where he lived or worked, or what else he did except write and illustrate a book... learn more

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Richard Lower – Scientist of the Day

Richard Lower, a British physician and physiologist, was born Jan. 29, probably in 1631, in Cornwall.

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Giovanni Alfonso Borelli – Scientist of the Day

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, an Italian physicist and astronomer, was born Jan. 28, 1608, in Naples. He studied in Rome under Benedetto Castelli, an early supporter of Galileo Galilei...

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Phineas Davis – Scientist of the Day

Phineas Davis, an American craftsman and inventor, was born Jan. 27, 1792, in Warner, New Hampshire. At the age of 17, he moved to York, Pennsylvania...

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George McCready Price – Scientist of the Day

George McCready Price, a Canadian geologist of sorts and a Seventh-day Adventist, died Jan. 24, 1963, at the age of 92. Price is best known for his textbook, The New Geology (1923)...

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