Scientist of the Day

Robert Kerr, a Scottish surgeon and translator, was born on Oct. 20, 1757, in Bughtridge, Roxburghshire, in southeastern Scotland. He studied...

Ignazio Danti, an Italian mathematician, cartographer, and cleric, died in Rome on Oct. 19, 1586, at the age of 50. He had been born in Perugia in...

Albrecht Von Haller, a Swiss botanist, anatomist, and physiologist, was born in Bern on Oct. 26, 1708. He suffered from poor health his entire life...

The Cassini-Huygens space probe was launched by NASA on Oct. 15, 1997, bound for Saturn. The probe was named after two of the early pioneers in the...

Chuck Yeager, an American test pilot, was born as Charles Elwood Yeager on Feb. 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia. He learned to fly in World War II...

Mary Henrietta Kingsley, an English traveler to West Africa, was born Oct. 13, 1862, in London.

Gabriele Falloppio, an Italian anatomist, died Oct. 9, 1562, in Padua, where he was professor of anatomy, following in the footsteps ...

Clemens Winkler, a German chemist, died on Oct. 8, 1904, in Dresden, at the age of 65. Winkler was born in 1838 in Freiberg in what was then Saxony...

Mario Molina, a Mexican physical and atmospheric chemist, died on Oct. 7, 2020, in Mexico City, where he has been born 77 years earlier, on Mar. 19...

George Westinghouse, an American machinist, inventor, entrepreneur, and manufacturer, was born Oct. 6, 1846, in Central Bridge, New York, whose...

Robert Hutchings Goddard, an American physicist and rocket pioneer, was born Oct. 5, 1882, in Worcester, Mass.  Goddard was the first American to...

Peter Brian Medawar, a biologist and writer, died on Oct. 2, 1987, at the age of 72, in London. He had been born in Brazil in 1915, the offspring...