by Eric Ward | Sep 9, 2021
Dr. Jonathan Gardner, Deputy Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, and Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope, will provide an insider’s look at the scientific legacy of Hubble and the extraordinary possibilities of the James Webb.
by Bill Ashworth | Jun 2, 2021 | Scientist of the Day
Thomas Hardy, an English novelist and poet, was born June 2, 1840. Hardy is best known for such novels as The Return of the Native (1878) and Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), works that have little to do with science, but he did publish one novel with an astronomical...
by Bill Ashworth | Jun 1, 2021 | Scientist of the Day
Tiedemann Giese, a bishop, theologian, and best friend of Nicholas Copernicus, was born on June 1st, 1480, in Danzig (today Gdańsk, Poland). He left behind only a single published work, which the library does not hold on account of its extreme rarity and focus on...
by Bill Ashworth | May 12, 2021 | Scientist of the Day
John Russell Hind, an English astronomer, was born May 12, 1822. He worked at the Greenwich Observatory for several years, when he was still a teenager, and then, in 1844, he was offered the position as director of George Bishop’s private observatory in...
by Bill Ashworth | Apr 28, 2021 | Scientist of the Day
Francis Baily, a British astronomer, was born Apr. 28, 1774. Although, as we shall see, Baily made some important contributions to observational astronomy, he was really at heart a historical astronomer. He wanted to know what the ancient astronomer Ptolemy was really...
