Scientist of the Day

Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese painter, was born Oct. 31, 1760. Hokusai lived during the late Edo period in what is now Tokyo, and although he...

Henry Salt, an English artist, secretary, diplomat, and collector of antiquities, died Oct. 30, 1827, at the age of 47. He was born in Lichfield in...

William Benjamin Carpenter, an English physiologist and invertebrate zoologist, was born Oct. 29, 1813, in Exeter, making him 4 years younger than...

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French artist and sculptor, was born on Aug. 2, 1835, in Colmar in the Alsace region of northeastern France.

Richard H. Kern, an American artist and explorer of the American West, was born in Philadelphia in 1821 and died on Oct. 26 or Oct. 27, 1853.

When most people think of famous views of Earth from space, they recall perhaps the Blue Marble photo taken from the Moon by Jack Schmitt on the...

Eric N. DeLony, an industrial archaeologist and historic preservationist, was born on an Army base in Florida on Sep. 27, 1944, and died on this...

Samuel Alken Sr., an English artist and engraver, was born Oct. 22, 1756, in London. Alken got his art training at the school of the Royal Academy...

Martin Gardner, a recreational mathematician, or perhaps mathematical gamester, was born Oct 21, 1914, in Tulsa. He attended the University of...

William Johnson Sollas, an English geologist and anthropologist, died Oct. 20, 1936, at the age of 87. He had been born in Birmingham on May 30...

Christen Smith, a Norwegian botanist and explorer, was born Oct. 17, 1786, in a town about 25 miles southwest of Oslo. He attended the University...

On Oct. 16, 1849, some of the crew of HMS Rattlesnake were on the beach at Cape York, the northernmost tip of the Australian peninsula, which...