History and Philosophy (often of Science)
jlynch | September 24, 2007Births
1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist
1802 - Adolphe d’Archaic, French paleontologist and geologist
1870 - Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor
1895 - André Frédéric Cournand, French physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1541 - Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist
1904 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1945 - Hans Geiger, German physicist
1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist
jlynch | September 22, 2007Events
1846 - Discovery of Neptune by Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and John Couch Adams
1884 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
1999 - NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
Births
1791 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer
1819 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist
1852 - William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon
1880 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Clifford Shull, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1873 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer
1929 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy,…
jlynch | September 22, 2007Births
1715 - Jean-Ãtienne Guettard, French physician and scientist
1717 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer
1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist
1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist
1900 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer
1901 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1777 - John Bartram, American botanist
1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | September 21, 2007Events
2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
2003 - Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
Births
1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1866 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1919 - Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
1926 - Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1874 - Jean-Baptiste Ãlie de Beaumont, French geologist
1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist…
jlynch | September 20, 2007
Events
1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition.
Births
1842 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist
Deaths
1884 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist
jlynch | September 18, 2007Births
1759 - William Kirby, English entomologist
1889 - Sadie Delany, American physician
1926 - Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer
1843 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist
1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist
jlynch | September 16, 2007Events
1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
Births
1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist
Deaths
1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist
jlynch | September 15, 2007Births
1725 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist
1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist
1853 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1893 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1736 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist
1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist
1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist
jlynch | September 15, 2007Events
1835 - The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1968 - The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
Births
1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist
1852 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist
1894 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1596 - Leonhard…
jlynch | September 14, 2007Events
1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
Births
1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer
1804 - John Gould, British ornithologist who worked on Darwin’s specimens from the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1909 - Peter Scott, British naturalist
1936 - Ferid Murad, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer
1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist
jlynch | September 13, 2007Events
1994 - Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.
Births
1851 - Walter Reed, American physician and biologist
1886 - Robert Robinson, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1948 - Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist
Deaths
1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill
jlynch | September 12, 2007Before we get to your TiS, a quick apology for things being relatively quiet here. A combination of class preps and service have kept me abnormally busy. Hopefully things will clear up come the weekend.
Events
1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1959 - The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
1992 - NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board is Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.
Births
1725 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer…
jlynch | September 10, 2007Events
1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1997 - Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
Births
1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist
1877 - James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist
Deaths
1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer
1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist
jlynch | September 10, 2007Events
1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
Births
1624 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician
1892 - Arthur Compton, American physicist and Nobel laureate
1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist
1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist
Deaths
1749 - Ãmilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist
1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist and Nobel laureate
1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist and Nobel laureate
jlynch | September 9, 2007Events
1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
Births
1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist
1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate
1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
1841 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist
1941 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist and Nobel laureate
1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist and Nobel laureate
2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist
jlynch | September 8, 2007Births
1918 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist
1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist
1965 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and Nobel laureate
1980 - Willard Libby, American chemist and Nobel laureate
1981 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate
1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist and Nobel laureate
jlynch | September 7, 2007Events
1936 - The last surviving thylacine dies at the Hobart Zoo.
Births
1707 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist
1829 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German organic chemist
1836 - August Toepler, German physicist
1914 - James Van Allen, American space scientist
1917 - John Cornforth, Australian chemist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
1799 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist
1991 - Edwin McMillan, American physicist
jlynch | September 6, 2007Births
1732 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist
1766 - John Dalton, British chemist and physicist
1802 - Alcide d’Orbigny, French naturalist
1829 - Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician
1876 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician, physiologist, and Nobel laureate
1892 - Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist and Nobel laureate
1906 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel laureate
1939 - Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist and Nobel laureate
1943 - Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
1635 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and…
jlynch | September 5, 2007Events
1977 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched
1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
Births
1787 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist
1792 - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and inventor
Deaths
1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist
1943 - AleÅ¡ HrdliÄka, Czech anthropologist
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer
jlynch | September 4, 2007Events
1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage, is introduced.
Births
1906 - Max Delbrück, German biologist and Nobel laureate
1913 - Stanford Moore, American chemist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer
1852 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist
1977 - Jean Rostand, French biologist