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jlynch | February 12, 2008Events
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe’s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
Births
1672 - Ãtienne François Geoffroy, French chemist
1743 - Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist
1910 - William Shockley, American physicist, eugenicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1787 - RuÄer BoÅ¡koviÄ, Croatian scientist
2005 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist
jlynch | February 11, 2008Events
2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
Births
1637 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist
1665 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician
1785 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist
1804 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist
1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist
1918 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1612 - Christopher Clavius, German astronomer
1799 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist
1958 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist
jlynch | February 10, 2008Births
1657 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist
1839 - Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist
1898 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born physicist
1908 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist
Deaths
1868 - Léon Foucault, French astronomer
1973 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1976 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist
1978 - James B Conant, American chemist
1991 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | February 9, 2008Births
1785- Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist
1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist
1897 - John Franklin Enders, American virologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist
1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer
1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist
jlynch | February 8, 2008
Births
1781 - Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist
1865 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist
1910 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist
1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist
Deaths
1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist
1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist
1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | February 7, 2008Births
1677 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer
1807 - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist
1930 - James Deetz, American anthropologist
Deaths
1856 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist
1957 - Walther Bothe, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1957 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist
1975 - Robert Robinson, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | February 6, 2008Births
1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist
1905 - Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist
1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist
1960 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist
jlynch | February 6, 2008Births
1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon
1853 - Ignacij KlemenÄiÄ, Slovenian physicist
1892 - William Parry Murphy, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1913 - Mary Leakey, British anthropologist
Deaths
1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist
1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist
1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist
1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist
2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | February 5, 2008Births
1795 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist
1910 - Charles Leblond, Canadian cell biologist
1914 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist
1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist
1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist
jlynch | February 3, 2008Events
1936 - Radium E becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
Births
1725 - Dru Drury, English entomologist
1778 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist
1846 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist
1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist
1896 - Friedrich Hund, German physicist
1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer
Deaths
1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian physicist
1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist
1987 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist
jlynch | February 2, 2008Births
1754 - George Crabbe, English naturalist
1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist
1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician
1912 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist
1920 - Henry Heimlich, American physician
Deaths
1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist
1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist
2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born evolutionary biologist
jlynch | February 2, 2008Births
1695 - William Borlase, English naturalist
1802 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist
1829 - Alfred Brehm, German zoologist
1841 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist
Deaths
1712 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
1907 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist
1957 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist
1970 - Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher
jlynch | January 31, 2008Births
1635 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist
1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist
1844 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist
Deaths
1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist
1903 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist
1958 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1976 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1976 - George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | January 30, 2008Events
1958 - Explorer program: Explorer I - The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 - Ham the Chimp becomes the first hominid in outer space.
Births
1868 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1881 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | January 29, 2008
Events
1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
Births
1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist
1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist
1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist
1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician
1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist
1995 - Gerald Durrell, British…
jlynch | January 28, 2008Births
1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher
1846 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist
1901 - Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor
1926 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | January 27, 2008Events
1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven astronauts onboard
Births
1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist
1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer
1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer
1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician
1884 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist
1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1687 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer
1864 - Ãmile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist
1915 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist
1988 - Klaus Fuchs,…
jlynch | January 26, 2008
Births
1621 - Thomas Willis, English physician
1903 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1936 - Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1851 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter
1967 - Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee (above) were killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
jlynch | January 25, 2008Births
1891 - Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon
1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist
1911 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician
1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist
1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer
jlynch | January 25, 2008Events
2004 - Opportunity Rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
Births
1627 - Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
1794 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist
1796 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist
1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1949 - Paul Nurse, English biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1957 - Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese…