Scientist of the Day

William Kennett Loftus, an English archaeologist, was born on Nov. 13, 1820, in Linton, Kent, not far from Maidstone, where...

Thaddeus William Harris, an American entomologist and librarian, was born Nov. 12, 1795, in Dorchester, Mass.

Gideon Algernon Mantell, an English surgeon, fossil hunter, and geologist, died Nov. 10, 1852, at age 62.   Mantell is best known for discovering...

Jean-André Deluc (sometimes de Luc), a Swiss physicist and geologist, died in Windsor, England, on Nov. 7, 1817, at the age of 90. He had been born...

James Bowdoin II, an American statesman and would-be scientist, died Nov. 6, 1790, at age 64; he was born Aug. 7, 1726. Bowdoin inherited wealth...

Jeremiah Farrell, a mathematician, recreational mathematician, and puzzler, was born on Dec. 12, 1937, in Hastings, Nebraska.

The ATS-3 communications satellite was launched aboard an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral on Nov. 4, 1967. It was successfully inserted into...

Eileen Mary Lind Hendriks, an English Geologist, was born Nov. 3, 1887, in Edgbaston, Birmingham, into a well-to-do middle-class family. Her father...

Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese painter, was born Oct. 31, 1760. Hokusai lived during the late Edo period in what is now Tokyo, and although he...

Henry Salt, an English artist, secretary, diplomat, and collector of antiquities, died Oct. 30, 1827, at the age of 47. He was born in Lichfield in...

William Benjamin Carpenter, an English physiologist and invertebrate zoologist, was born Oct. 29, 1813, in Exeter, making him 4 years younger than...

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French artist and sculptor, was born on Aug. 2, 1835, in Colmar in the Alsace region of northeastern France.