Scientist of the Day

Albert Herter, an American painter, was born Mar. 2, 1871. Herter was a portrait and genre painter in his younger days, but later he specialized in...

Georgy Flyorov, a Soviet physicist, was born Mar. 2, 1913, in Rostov-on-Don, just north of the Black Sea.  His first name is sometimes written as...

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, a Russian experimental physiologist, died Feb. 27, 1936, at the age of 86. Pavlov was born on Sep. 26, 1849, in Ryazan...

Phillip Parker King, an officer in the British Royal Navy, died Feb. 26, 1856, at the age of 64.  He had been born on Dec. 13, 1791, on Norfolk...

Osbert Salvin, an English naturalist with a special interest in birds, was born in Elmshurst, Middlesex, on Feb. 25, 1835. He was the son of an...

Henri Frankfort, a Dutch archaeologist and orientalist, was born Feb. 24, 1897, in Amsterdam. He met his future wife, Henriette Groenewegen, while...

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...