History and Philosophy (often of Science)
jlynch | November 10, 2007Events
1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
Births
1743 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist
1930 - Hugh Everett, American physicist
Deaths
1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist
1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist
1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | November 9, 2007Births
1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer
1695 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer
1918 - Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1935 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
1935 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist
1961 - Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physicist
Deaths
1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist
jlynch | November 8, 2007Events
1921 - Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
Births
1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist
1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist
1874 - Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist
1885 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist
1897 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer
Deaths
2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist
jlynch | November 7, 2007Events
1895 - While experimenting with electricity Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays.
Births
1656 (N.S.) - Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician
1854 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist
1885 - Hans Cloos, German geologist
1922 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon
1923 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician
jlynch | November 6, 2007Events
1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
Births
1818 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician
1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish-born chemist, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (twice)
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian/American chemist, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1888 - C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1903 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Philip Morrison, American scientist
1929 - Eric R. Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon
1913 -…
jlynch | November 5, 2007Events
1935 - Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation."
Deaths
1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer
1822 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist
1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | October 31, 2007I’m off for the History of Science Society annual meeting in DC for the next few days, so posting will be scant or non-existent. I’m responding to a series of papers on Victorian critics of scientific naturalism and attending the Committee on Education annual meeting.
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Births
1835 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - John Pople, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - Paul Frampton, English…
jlynch | October 30, 2007Births
1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist
1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist
1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist
1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist
1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate (declined)
1895 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1900 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1907 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist
1928 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, and Nobel Prize laureate…
jlynch | October 29, 2007
Events
1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra (above), becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
Births
1656 (O.S.) - Edmond Halley, English astronomer
1827 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist
1880 - Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist
1915 - William Berenberg, American physician
1920 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1923 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
Deaths
1932 - Joseph BabiÅski, Polish-French neurologist
1933 - Albert Calmette, French physician
1971 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist and Nobel…
jlynch | October 28, 2007Births
1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist
1912 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist
1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist
1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | October 27, 2007Stanford University Hospital is reporting that Arthur Kornberg, the 1959 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, has died aged 89. Kornberg received recognition for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)". His son, Roger, received his own Nobel (Chemistry) last year.
jlynch | October 27, 2007Events
1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
Births
1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
Deaths
1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer
1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist
1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist
1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist
jlynch | October 25, 2007Births
1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist
1910 - William Higinbotham, American physicist
Deaths
1647 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician
jlynch | October 23, 2007Events
1998 - Launch of the Deep Space 1 mission
Births
1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer
jlynch | October 22, 2007Births
1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist
1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1908 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1986 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | October 20, 2007Events
1983 - The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
2003 - Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
Births
1660 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist
1833 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize
1957 - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist
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Births
1808 - Karl Andree, German geographer
1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German…
jlynch | October 17, 2007Births
1859 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher and author of Creative Evolution.
1897 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist
1902 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist
Deaths
1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician
1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist
jlynch | October 17, 2007Events
1604 - Johannes Kepler observes Kepler’s Star (Supernova 1604), the last supernova to have been observed in the Milky Way.
Births
1919 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
1936 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
Deaths
1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist
1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist
1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist
1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist
1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate