Antonio Pigafetta, a Ventetian writer and adventurer, set sail on Sep. 20, 1519, on board the Trinidad, on what would turn out to be the first ...

Pei Wenzhong, a Chinese paleontologist and anthropologist, died Sep. 18, 1982, at age 78.  Pei is one of several "fathers of Chinese anthropology,"...

Jumbo the elephant, the pachydermal pride of two continents, died Sep. 15, 1885, after being struck by a locomotive at St. Thomas, Ontario. It was ...

John Louis Emil Dreyer, a Danish/English astronomer who is almost always referred to as J.L.E. Dreyer, died Sep. 14, 1926, at age  74.  Dreyer was...

Hans Christian Joachim Gram, a Danish physician and bacteriologist, was born Sep. 13, 1853.  Gram received his medical degree from the University ...

James Hall, Jr., an American geologist and paleontologist, was born Sept. 12, 1811, in Hingham, Mass.  He attended the new Rensselaer College in ...

Harry McNish, a Scottish ship's carpenter, was born Sept. 11, 1874, in Port Glasgow, Scotland.  McNish (sometimes spelled McNeish) was chosen by ...

John Franklin Enders, an American medical scientist, died Sep. 8, 1985, at age 88.  Enders was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut (where I ...

John Harris, an English mathematician and encyclopedist, died Sep 7, 1719, at the age of about 52. Harris is best known for his Lexicon Technicum, ...

Edward Victor Appleton, an English physicist, was born Sep 6, 1892, in Bradford, West Riding, Yorkshire.  He was a precocious lad, demonstrating ...

Federico Commandino, an Italian mathematician, died Sep. 5, 1575, at age 66. Commandino grew up in Urbino, learned mathematics from a tutor ...