History and Philosophy (often of Science)
jlynch | September 2, 2007Events
1976 -Viking 2 lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
Births
1710 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist
1869 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and Nobel laureate
1899 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist and Nobel laureate
1905 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist and Nobel laureate
1907 - Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist
1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
2005 - Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist
jlynch | September 2, 2007Births
1850 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist
1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist and Nobel laureate
1877 - Frederick Soddy, British chemist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
1764 - Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal
1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer
2004 - Joan Oró, Catalan scientist
jlynch | August 31, 2007Events
1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding.
1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1979 - The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes at a distance of 21,000 km.
Births
1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist
1856 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist
1877 - Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
1888 - Andrija Å tampar, Croatian physician
Deaths
1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician
1988 - Luis Alvarez,…
jlynch | August 31, 2007Births
1663 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker
1821 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician
1913 - Bernard Lovell, British radio astronomer
1949 - H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1654 - Ole Worm, Danish physician
1772 - William Borlase, English naturalist
1869 - Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim
1920 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist
1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate
2002 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate
2005 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist
jlynch | August 29, 2007Events
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Births
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, Nobel laureate
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, Nobel laureate
1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Nobel laureate
1912 - Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor
1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer
jlynch | August 29, 2007Events
1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung.
Births
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician
1904 - Werner Forssmann, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1989 - Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist and co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund.
jlynch | August 27, 2007Events
1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men.
Births
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist
1878 - George Whipple, American scientist, and Nobel laureate
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist
1908 - Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist
Deaths
1839 - William Smith, English geologist
1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist
2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate
jlynch | August 26, 2007Events
1962 - Mariner 2 launched to Venus.
2003 - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
Births
1874 - Carl Bosch, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Norman F. Ramsey, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1909 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist
1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | August 25, 2007Births
1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist
1736 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle, French chemist
1740 - Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor
1850 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1882 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1906 - Albert Sabin, American polio researcher
Deaths
1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist
1865 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer
1910 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher
1987 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1990 - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer…
jlynch | August 25, 2007Events
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1981 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, at the time the outermost planet in the Solar System.
Births
1561 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer
1841 - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher; Nobel Prize laureate
1900 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize…
jlynch | August 24, 2007Events
1831 - Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
2006 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is no longer considered a planet.
Births
1899 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel laureate
1923 - Arthur Jensen, American hereditarian psychologist
1950 - Tim White, American physical anthropologist
Deaths
1595 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer
1664 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer
1888 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist
jlynch | August 22, 2007Events
1889 - First wireless message from a ship to the shore received.
1962 - First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite.
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1973 - The Intelsat communication satellite is launched.
Births
1623 - StanisÅaw Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer
1769 - Georges Cuvier, French biologist
1847 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer
1931 - Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1933 -…
jlynch | August 21, 2007Events
1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
Births
1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer
1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist
Deaths
1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist
1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist
1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy
1950 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist
1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist
jlynch | August 20, 2007Births
1660 - Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer
1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer
1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist
1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist
Deaths
1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist
1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist
1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate
jlynch | August 19, 2007Events
1975 - Viking 1 planetary probe launched toward Mars.
1977 - Voyager 2 probe launched.
Births
1719 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer
1779 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist
1913 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1915 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1917 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1961 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate…
jlynch | August 18, 2007Events
1839 - Presentation of Jacque Daguerre’s new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.
1960 - Sputnik 5 launches with a cargo of the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
Births
1646 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer
1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer
Deaths
1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist
1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist
1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist
1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel…
jlynch | August 18, 2007Events
1868 - Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Phobos.
Deaths
2001 - David Peakall, British toxicologist.
jlynch | August 17, 2007Jerry Bergman is well know to those of us who follow creationism - in the past he has blamed Darwin(ism) for practically every ill that afflicts the modern world and regularly publishes "historical" work in the journals of the Answers in Genesis and teh Creation Research Society. Bergman's history is deeply flawed and he twists facts to suit his pre-ordained position (like many YEC commentators).
Bergman has recently written a piece for ICR Impact discussing the French philosopher, Henri Bergson, author of L'Evolution créatrice (1907, not 1944 as Bergman indicates). The articles begins:
An…
jlynch | August 17, 2007Events
1970 - Venera 7 launched towards Venus. It became the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet.
Births
1828 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist
1873 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist
Deaths
1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist
2005 - John Bahcall, astrophysicist
jlynch | August 16, 2007Births
1832 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist
1845 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, Nobel laureate
1904 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1705 - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist
1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist
1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist
1907 - James Hector, Scottish geologist
1957 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1973 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate