Scientist of the Day

Ernst Mach, an Austrian physicist, was born Feb. 18, 1838, in Chilitz, Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic. He was educated at home until ...

Edward Arthur Milne (nearly always referred to as E. A. Milne), a British astrophysicist and cosmologist, was born Feb. 14, 1896, at Hull ...

James Dwight Dana, an American geologist, was born Feb. 12, 1813, in Utica, New York. He was exactly 4 years younger than Charles Darwin, who was ...

James Cowles Prichard, an English physician and ethnologist, was born Feb. 11, 1786, in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Prichard was raised as a Quaker...

Iridium Satellite LLC was a private firm that began, around 1987, to plan a network of satellites to support portable satellite phones, allowing ...

Sinclair Lewis, an American novelist, was born Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. He attended Yale University and began writing novels ...

Charles Wheatstone, an English physicist and inventor, was born Feb. 6, 1802, in Barnwood, Gloucestershire. His father was a music teacher, and ...

William Rutter Dawes, an English amateur astronomer, died Feb. 15, 1868, at the age of 68. His father was a schoolteacher. Young Dawes obtained a ...

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, a Dutch physicist, died Feb. 4, 1928, at the age of 74, having been born in Arnhem on July 18, 1853.

Gideon Mantell, an English surgeon and fossil collector, was born Feb. 3, 1790.

Philip Glass, an American composer, was born Jan. 31, 1937. Glass is a prolific composer of a wide variety of music, including symphonies, ...

T.G. Cumming has left few traces of his life as a surveyor. We do not know where or when he was born or died, where he lived or worked, or ...