July 13, 2020
by Bill Ashworth | Jul 13, 2020 | Scientist of the Day
William Turner, an English cleric and naturalist, died July 13, 1568, at the approximate age of 60; his actual date of birth is unknown. In 1568, the first complete edition of Turner’s Herbal was published, with a title that is long but instructive: The first and...
July 10, 2020
by Bill Ashworth | Jul 10, 2020 | Scientist of the Day
William Saville-Kent, an English marine biologist, was born July 10, 1845. His early interest was in protozoa, or “infusoria,” as these organisms were called in the 19th century. This interest was probably a result of his studying for some years with...
July 8, 2020
by Bill Ashworth | Jul 8, 2020 | Scientist of the Day
Samuel David Gross, an American surgeon, was born July 8, 1805. Gross attended the brand-new Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in the mid-1820s, and then taught pathological anatomy for some years at the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati. When that school...
July 6, 2020
by Bill Ashworth | Jul 6, 2020 | Scientist of the Day
Thomas White, an English priest and natural philosopher, died July 6, 1676, at the age of about 83. White was a Roman Catholic in Anglican England, which meant he had to spend a great deal of his life in exile on the Continent, teaching in various universities and...
July 2, 2020
by Bill Ashworth | Jul 2, 2020 | Scientist of the Day
Harriet Brooks, born July 2, 1876 in Exeter, Ontario, enjoyed the distinction of being the first graduate student to work with Ernest Rutherford, a giant (both physically and intellectually) of early atomic physics. They enjoyed a happy, productive period of...
July 1, 2020
by Bill Ashworth | Jul 1, 2020 | Scientist of the Day
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig, Germany, and was baptized into the Lutheran Church three days later. Leibniz’ father, a philosophy professor at the University of Leipzig, died when the boy was only seven, leaving him to be raised...
