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John Philip Holland – Scientist of the Day
April 11 is National Submarine Day.
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#John Philip Holland#submarines#histsci#histSTM#19th century#20th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Louis Vicat – Scientist of the Day
Louis Vicat, a French engineer and bridge builder, died Apr. 10, 1861, at the age of 75.
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J. Presper Eckert – Scientist of the Day
J. Presper Eckert, an American electrical engineer and computer expert, was born Apr. 9, 1919, in Philadelphia.
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Pablo Picasso – Scientist of the Day
Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, died Apr. 8, 1973, at the age of 91.
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Christian Konrad Sprengel – Scientist of the Day
Christian Konrad Sprengel, a German naturalist, died Apr. 7, 1816, at age 65. Sprengel earned his living as a teacher ...
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Carolus Clusius – Scientist of the Day
Carolus Clusius, a Flemish botanist, died Apr. 4, 1609, at the age of 83. He is sometimes referred to as Charles L’Ecluse. Born in Artois...
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Pierre-Charles Le Monnier – Scientist of the Day
Pierre-Charles Le Monnier, a French astronomer and mathematician, died Apr. 3, 1799, at the age of 83.
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Eugenius Warming – Scientist of the Day
Eugenius Warming, a Danish botanist, died Apr. 2, 1924, at the age of 82. Warming was one of the founders of the modern science of ecology.
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Pieter Vogelvormer – Scientist of the Day
Pieter Vogelvormer, a Dutch naturalist, was born in The Hague on Apr. 1, 1608.
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René Descartes – Scientist of the Day
René Descartes, a French natural philosopher, was born Mar. 31, 1596. Many accounts of early modern science give Descartes short shrift, in scrambling to get from Galileo...
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#Rene Descartes#geology#theories of the Earth#ToE#histsci#histSTM#17th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Marlin Perkins – Scientist of the Day
Marlin Perkins, an American zoologist, was born Mar. 28, 1905, in Carthage, Missouri.
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#Marlin Perkins#nature on television#zoos#histsci#histSTM#20th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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William Healey Dall – Scientist of the Day
William Healey Dall, an American naturalist and explorer, died Mar. 27, 1927, at the age of 81.
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Othmar Ammann – Scientist of the Day
Othmar Ammann, a Swiss/American civil engineer, was born Mar. 26, 1879.
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Frances Glessner Lee – Scientist of the Day
Frances Glessner Lee, a pioneer of forensic medicine in the United States, was born Mar. 25, 1879, in Chicago.
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John Kendrew – Scientist of the Day
John Cowdery Kendrew, an English biochemist, was born Mar. 24, 1917, in Oxford.
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#John Kendrew#biochemistry#molecular biology#Nobel#models#histsci#histSTM#20th century#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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Fitzedward Hall – Scientist of the Day
Fitzedward Hall, an American Sanskrit scholar and collector of quotations, was born in Troy, N.Y., on Mar. 21, 1825.
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Apollonius of Perga – Scientist of the Day
Apollonius of Perga, a Greek mathematician, was born sometime after 245 BCE and died 50 or 60 years later.
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#Apollonius of Perga#conics#math#Hellenistic#histsci#histSTM#history of science#Ashworth#Scientist of the Day
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