by Bill Ashworth | Oct 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Marguerite Perey, a French radiochemist, was born Oct. 19. 1909. Perey came from a middle-class family on the outskirts of Paris. She wanted to become a physician, but her family could not afford the cost. Instead, she attended a vocational school for laboratory...
by Bill Ashworth | Oct 16, 2020 | Scientist of the Day
Peter Halkett, a British naval officer, was born Oct. 16, 1820. Halkett grew up in the heady decade when attempts were first made to discover a Northwest passage through the Arctic, and the worst disaster occurred during the overland expedition of John Franklin...
by Bill Ashworth | Oct 15, 2020 | Scientist of the Day
Frank Hurley, an Australian photographer, was born Oct. 15, 1885. Hurley was the photographer on Ernest Shackleton’s trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914. Their ship, the Endurance, got no further than the Weddell Sea, where it was frozen in for some months and...
by Bill Ashworth | Oct 13, 2020 | Scientist of the Day
Eugénie Feytis Cotton, born Oct. 13, 1881, enjoyed two incomparable advantages for a young woman aspiring to be a scientist in 19th-century France. First, her parents encouraged her, ignoring provincial opinions in Soubise and straining their finances to provide her...
by Bill Ashworth | Oct 9, 2020 | Scientist of the Day
Max von Laue, a German physicist, was born Oct. 9, 1879. In 1912, Laue hypothesized that if X-rays are electromagnetic waves, and if crystals have a regular lattice-like structure, then one might bounce X-rays off a crystal to produce an interference pattern that...
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