Scientist of the Day

Thomas Talbot Bury, an English architect and artist, died Feb. 23, 1877, at the age of 67.

In February of 1835, Charles Darwin was in the third year of his voyage on HMS Beagle. He and Captain Robert FitzRoy and the rest of the crew had...

William Fairbairn, a Scottish engineer, was born Feb. 19, 1789, in the town of Kelso in the Scottish borders. He learned machining and metalworking...

Giovanni Domenico Cassini, an Italian/French astronomer, had a distinguished career in Bologna, where he built a large meridian in the church of...

Howard Carter, an English Egyptologist and archaeologist, was born in London on May 9, 1874. His parents were artists, and Carter had considerable...

Joseph Banks, an English botanist, voyager, and patron, was born on Feb. 13 (O.S.), 1743, in London. His father was a wealthy country squire with...

Julian Schwinger, an American physicist, was born on Feb. 12, 1918, in New York City.  Schwinger was one of three to win the Nobel Prize in Physics...

René Descartes, a French/Dutch natural philosopher, died Feb. 11, 1650, just six weeks shy of his 54th birthday. We have celebrated his birthday...

Francis Orpen Morris, a British naturalist and clergyman, died Feb. 10, 1893, at age 82. Morris was born in western Ireland, grew up in Dorsetshire...

Benjamin Martin, an English science teacher, instrument maker, and popular science author, died on Feb 9, 1782, at the age of 75-77. He was raised...

Aldus Manutius, an Italian humanist, printer, and typographic innovator, died Feb. 6, 1515, at the age of about 65. Also referred to as Aldo...

On Feb. 5, 1675/76, Isaac Newton wrote a letter to his older colleague at the Royal Society of London, Robert Hooke. Here is the background...