Scientist of the Day

Martin Frobenius Ledermüller, a German microscopist, was born Aug. 20, 1719, in Nuremberg. The son of a clerk, he studied law in Jena for a year...

Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet, was born in the mid-90s BCE and died in the mid-50s BCE, perhaps 55 or 53 BCE, at the age of around 40. His...

Percy Fawcett, an English Army officer and explorer, was born on Aug. 18, 1867, in Torquay, Devonshire. He attended the Military Academy at...

Scipione Breislak, an Italian geologist, was born Aug. 17, 1748, in Rome. He lived at a time when views on the origins of the Earth's rock...

Henri Breuil, a French archaeologist, died Aug. 14, 1961, at the age of 84. Since he was also a Roman Catholic priest, he is usually referred to as...

Leland W. Sprinkle, an American engineer and organist, was born on Aug. 13, 1908.  Not much is known about Sprinkle’s early life, except that his...

Ernst Boris Chain, a German/British biochemist, died Aug. 12, 1979, at the age of 73. Chain was Jewish, born in Berlin, and he sensed, when Hitler...

George of Trebizond, a Greek scholar sometimes referred to as Georgius Trapezuntius, was born in Crete around 1395. His ancestors had moved to...

Greenwich Observatory was founded on Aug. 10, 1675, when the first foundation stone was laid.

Hipparchus of Nicaea, an Ancient Greek astronomer, was born about 187 BCE and died sometime after 127 BCE.  Because Nicaea was in Bythnia (up on...

Josef Pallenberg, a German sculptor, animalier, and proto-paleoartist, was born on Aug. 6, 1882, in Cologne. He started drawing animals at the zoo...

Charles Octavius Morgan, nearly always known by his middle name Octavius, died Aug. 5, 1888, at the age of 84. Morgan was a British political...