The Library will be CLOSED on Monday, April 29, 2024 for a staff event.
We will reopen on Tuesday, April 30 at 10:00 AM.
Jean-Baptiste Biot
On Apr. 26, 1803, a shower of stones, accompanied by deafening explosions, rained down just north of the village of l’Aigle in the Orne department ...
Marc Isambard Brunel
Marc Isambard Brunel, a British mechanical and civil engineer, was born Apr. 25, 1769. Brunel was the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who ...
Josiah Wood Whymper
Josiah Wood Whymper, a British wood engraver, was born Apr. 24, 1813.
Augustus A. Gould
Augustus Addison Gould, an American zoologist, malacologist (expert on mollusks) and conchologist (expert on shells), was born Apr. 23, 1805, in ...
Hans Christian Oersted
On Apr. 21, 1820, according to tradition, the Danish experimental physicist Hans Christian Oersted (Ørsted to the Danes) made a famous accidental ...
Jean-François d’Aubuisson de Voisins
Jean François d'Aubuisson de Voisins, a French geologist and mining engineer, was born Apr. 19, 1769, the same annus mirabilis that produced ...
Justus von Liebig
Justus von Liebig, a German chemist, died Apr. 18, 1873, at the age of 69. Liebig was a pioneer in organic chemistry, agricultural chemistry, and ...
Jean Perrin
Jean-Baptiste Perrin, a French physical chemist, died Apr. 17, 1942, at the age of 71. Perrin's youthful proficiency in math earned him entrance ...
Frederic Ward Putnam
Frederic Ward Putnam, an American anthropologist, was born Apr. 16, 1839. Putnam had been curator of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology ...
Friedrich G.W. von Struve
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, a German/Danish/Russian astronomer, was born Apr. 15, 1793. Struve became director of the Dorpat Observatory ...
Thomas Thomson
Thomas Thomson, a Scottish chemist, was born Apr. 12, 1773. There were many significant chemists working in this era – Jons Berzelius, John ...
Lothar Meyer
Lothar Meyer, a German chemist, died Apr. 11, 1895, at the age of 64.
Marshall Nirenberg
Marshall Warrenn Nirenberg, an American biochemist, was born Apr. 10, 1927, in New York City.
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