September 21, 2018
by Bill Ashworth | Sep 21, 2018 | Scientist of the Day |
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, a Dutch physicist, was born Sep. 21, 1853. He specialized in studying matter at extremely low temperatures. Yesterday’s Scientist of the Day, James Dewar, was also a low temperature physicist. Ordinarily we like to vary the fields of... September 20, 2018
by Bill Ashworth | Sep 20, 2018 | Scientist of the Day |
James Dewar, a Scottish physicist and chemist, was born Sep. 20, 1842. Dewar was a professor of experimental science at Cambridge and professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution in London, and he held both positions simultaneously for over 45 years until his... September 19, 2018
by Bill Ashworth | Sep 19, 2018 | Scientist of the Day |
Richard Harlan, an American naturalist, was born Sep. 19, 1796. Harlan wrote the first book about North American mammals, Fauna Americana (1825), and because of that, and the fact that he worked within the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, people sent him... September 18, 2018
by Bill Ashworth | Sep 18, 2018 | Scientist of the Day |
Léon Foucault, a French physical scientist, was born Sep. 18, 1819. Foucault was a very talented gentleman physicist, which is to say, he never held an academic position. He was one of the pioneers of scientific photography, taking the first daguerreotype of the Sun... September 17, 2018
by Jon Rollins | Sep 17, 2018 | Scientist of the Day |
Stephen Hales, an English physicist and plant physiologist, was born Sep. 17, 1677. Hales was an ardent follower of Isaac Newton, and he attempted to find the same laws and regularities in plants that Newton had found in the inorganic world. Between 1723 and 1725,... September 14, 2018
by Bill Ashworth | Sep 14, 2018 | Scientist of the Day |
James Walker, a Scottish civil engineer, was born Sep. 14, 1781. Walker was involved in all sorts of engineering projects, designing railways, docks, bridges, canals, and, most prolifically, lighthouses. Walker is seldom mentioned in the same sentence with... 
