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Robert Knox – Scientist of the Day
Robert Knox, a Scottish surgeon, died Dec. 20, 1862, at age 71.
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#Robert Knox#anatomy#murder#histsci#histSTM#19th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Albert Curtz – Scientist of the Day.
Albert Curtz, a Bavarian Jesuit mathematician, died Dec. 19, 1671.
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#Albert Curtz#math#patronage#Habsbugs#histsci#histSTM#7h century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Chauvet Cave – Scientist of the Day
Chauvet Cave, in the Ardeche Gorge of southeastern France, one of the world’s most stunning sites for paleolithic art, was discovered only recently, on Dec. 18, 1994, by three cavers, Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, and Christian Hillaire.
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#Paleolihic art#cave paintings#histsci#histSTM#20th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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William Thomson, Lord Kelvin – Scientist of the Day
William Thomson, a British physicist, died Dec. 17. 1907, at the age of 83.
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#William Thomson#Kelvin#Atlantic cable#electricity#histsci#histSTM#19th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Charles Edmund Isham – Scientist of the Day
Charles Edmund Isham, an English gardener and landowner, was born Dec. 16, 1819, at the family estate at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.
#Charles Edmund Isham#rock gardens#sculpture#histsci#histSTM#19h century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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William Nicholson – Scientist of the Day
William Nicholson, an English chemist, was born Dec. 13, 1753.
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#William Nicholson#journals#chemistry#histsci#histSTM#18th century#19th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt – Scientist of the Day
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an American astronomer, died Dec. 12, 1921, at the age of 53.
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#Henrietta Swan Leavitt#astronomy#histsci#histSTM#20h century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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William John Bankes – Scientist of the Day
William John Bankes, an English traveler and Egyptologist, was born Dec. 11, 1786.
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#William John Bankes#Egypt#obelisks#hieroglyphics#histsci#histSTM#19th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Paolo Uccello – Scientist of the Day
Paolo Uccello, a Florentine painter and mathematician, was born Paolo di Dono near Arezzo in Tuscany around 1397, and died Dec. 10, 1475, in Florence.
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#Paolo Uccello#art and science#perspective#histsci#histSTM#15 century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Johann Reinhold Forster – Scientist of the Day
Johann Reinhold Forster, a German naturalist and pastor, died Dec. 9, 1798, at age 69.
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#Johann Reinhold Forster#natural history#voyages#histsci#histSTM#18th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Charles-François Exchaquet – Scientist of the Day
Charles-François Exchaquet, a Swiss relief cartographer, foundry operator, and alpine climber, was born in Court in the Bernese Alps, on Dec. 6, 1746.
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#Charles-François Exchaquet#geology#Mont Blanc#cartography#geological mapping#maquettes#histsci#histSTM#18th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Werner Heisenberg – Scientist of the Day
Werner Heisenberg, a German nuclear physicist and one of the founders of quantum mechanics, was born Dec. 5, 1901.
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#Werner Heisenberg#Niels Bohr#nuclear physics#Copenhagen#bomb#histsci#histSTM#20th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Samuel Goudsmit – Scientist of the Day
Samuel Abaham Goudsmit, a Dutch-American physicist, died Dec. 4, 1978, at the age of 76. Goudsmit was born in The Hague and studied physics at the University of ...
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#Samuel Goudsmit#Manhattan Project#Alsos mission#histsci#histSTM#20th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Ellen Swallow Richards – Scientist of the Day
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards, an American chemist, was born Dec. 3, 1842, in Dunstable, Mass.
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#Ellen Swallow Richards#women in science#histsci#histSTM#19th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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STS 61 – Scientist of the Day
The Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched Dec. 2, 1993, on a mission known as STS-61.
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#STS-61#Endeavour#astronautics#histsci#histSTM#20th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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David Bruce – Scientist of the Day
David Bruce, a Scottish physician and microbiologist, died Nov. 27, 1931, at age 76.
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#David Bruce#medicine#infectious disease#histsci#histSTM#19th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Norbert Wiener – Scientist of the Day
Norbert Wiener, an American mathematician and philosopher, is best known for founding the field of cybernetics.
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#Norbert Wiener#cybernetics#histsci#histSTM#20th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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