Scientist of the Day

Hermann Oberth, a German rocket scientist, was born on June 25, 1894, in Transylvania (modern Romania). He read Jules Verne as a child and decided...

David Dale Owen, a Scottish/American geologist, was born June 24, 1807, in New Lanark, Scotland, southeast of Glasgow. New Lanark was a planned...

Peter Johann Windler was a German electrical experimenter whose life seems to be mostly undocumented. There is no entry in the English Wikipedia...

Pier Luigi Nervi was born June 21, 1891, and lived to age 87. Nervi worked as an engineer/architect and builder, from the 1930’s to the 1970’s...

Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian polar explorer, disappeared on June 28, 1928, in a plane crash in the Arctic, and is presumed to have died with his...

The Best Friend of Charleston, a steam locomotive, was built by the West Point Iron Foundry in New York City in the late summer of 1830, was...

Jacques Ozanam, a French mathematician, was born on June 16, 1640, in Saint-Olive, in east-central France. He was a pioneer in writing...

Antoine-François de Fourcroy, a French chemist, was born June 15, 1755, in Paris.  The son of an apothecary, he received his medical degree in...

Frank Michler Chapman, an American ornithologist, was born on June 12, 1864, in West Englewood, New Jersey. He started his working life as a banker...

Johann Georg Palitzsch, a German farmer, was born June 11, 1723, in Prohlis, now part of Dresden. Palitzsch is a shadowy figure about whom we wish...

Carl Hagenbeck, Jr., a German dealer in exotic animals and a pioneer in zoo design, was born in Hamburg on June 10, 1844. His father was a fish...

Pierre Duhem, a French theoretical physicist, and historian and philosopher of science, was born June 9, 1861, in Paris, near Montmartre.  He...