History and Philosophy (often of Science)
jlynch | July 7, 2007Births
1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer
1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and Nobel laureate
jlynch | July 5, 2007Events
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister.
Births
1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist
1785 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist
1903 - Hugo Theorell, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1476 - Regiomontanus, German astronomer
1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist
1976 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist
jlynch | July 5, 2007
Events
1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1951 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
1996 - Birth of Dolly, first cloned mammal. Dolly died in 2003 and now resides at the Royal Museum of Scotland (above)
1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
Births
1888 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1891 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1904 - Ernst Mayr, American ornithologist and evolutionary biologist…
jlynch | July 4, 2007
Events
1054 - A supernova is observed near ζ Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula (above).
1934 - Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
1997 - NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
2005 - The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
Births
1854 - Victor BabeÅ, Romanian bacteriologist
Deaths
1850 - William Kirby, English entomologist
1910 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer
1934 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics
1977 -…
jlynch | July 3, 2007
Events
1844 - The last pair of Great Auks (Alca impennis, above) is killed.
Births
1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon
Deaths
1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist
1790 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle, French chemist
1954 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician
jlynch | July 1, 2007Births
1862 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate
1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist
1906 - Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Richard Axel, American scientist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician
1926 - Ãmile Coué, French psychologist
jlynch | July 1, 2007Events
1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
Births
1742 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist
1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon
1929 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1971 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
2001 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | June 29, 2007Events
1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," where he introduces special relativity.
Births
1817 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist and confidant of Charles Darwin.
1926 - Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist
1857 - Alcide d’Orbigny, French naturalist
1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | June 28, 2007Births
1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer
Deaths
2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist
jlynch | June 27, 2007 Births
1824 - Paul Broca, French physician
1873 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1912 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher
1914 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
1927 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1889 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer
jlynch | June 27, 2007Births
1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist
1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1931 - Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | June 25, 2007
Events
1948 - William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
Births
1694 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist
1824 - Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist
1904 - Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer
1937 - Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1793 - Gilbert White, English naturalist
1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, inventor of the hot air balloon
1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
jlynch | June 24, 2007Births
1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist
1864 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate
1894 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist
1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1911 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1928 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer
1866 - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist
1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist
1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate
1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist,…
jlynch | June 23, 2007Births
1795 - Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist
1883 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Fred Hoyle, British astronomer
1927 - Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1637 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer
jlynch | June 22, 2007Births
1750 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist
1894 - Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist
1912 - Alan Turing, English mathematician
Deaths
1806 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist
1832 - James Hall, Scottish geologist
1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist
2006 - Harriet, a 175 year old tortoise perhaps collected by Charles Darwin in 1835.
jlynch | June 21, 2007Events
1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentrism.
1978 - Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered.
Births
1871 - William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath
1887 - Julian Huxley, British biologist
Deaths
1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician
1990 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | June 20, 2007Births
1646 (O.S.) - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and scientist
1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist
1791 - Robert Napier, British engineer
1805 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath
1811 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist
1823 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer
1828 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist
1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer
1868 - Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist
1870 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist
1876 - Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist
1887 - Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist…
jlynch | June 19, 2007Births
1861 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
1889 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer
1941 - Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
Deaths
1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist
1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel laureate
2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist
2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate
jlynch | June 18, 2007Births
1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher
1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer
1897 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel laureate
1906 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate
1910 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1820 - Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist
1844 - Ãtienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist
1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist
jlynch | June 18, 2007I haven’t spoken of Michael Egnor is a long time. If you remember, he’s the DI’s pet neurosurgeon who, as many have documented, has a penchant for silly arguments. Attacking Egnor is a little like harvesting low-hanging fruit, but I couldn’t let this (lack of) logic go unnoticed ... think of it as a teaching moment.
In response to a Nature editorial on Brownback’s defense of his views on evolution, Egnor writes:
Yet if intelligent design is scientifically wrong ...then the design inference can be investigated (and, they claim, refuted) using the scientific method. Then intelligent design is…