John Vaughan Thompson, an Army surgeon who dabbled in marine biology, was born Nov. 19, 1779, on Long Island in the United States, while ...

Edward Forbes, a Manx zoologist, died Nov. 18, 1854, at the age of 39.  He was born on the Isle of Man and went to medical school at the University...

Marianne Moore, an American poet, was born Nov. 15, 1887, in Kirkwood, Missouri.  Her father disappeared before she was born, and she was raised by...

Charles Lyell, a Scottish geologist, was born Nov 14, 1797.  His family was wealthy and owned an estate called Kinnordy House in Kirriemuir in...

Robert Kennicott, an American naturalist and explorer, was born in Glenview, Illinois, on Nov. 13, 1835. His father, John, was a doctor and ...

Percival Lowell, an American businessman, astronomer, and observatory director, died Nov. 12, 1916, at the age of 61. Lowell came from a moneyed ...

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a fifty-year-old professor of physics at Würzburg University when he made a discovery that would utterly transform the ...

James Cook, a British naval commander and explorer, was born Nov. 7, 1828, in Yorkshire, and grew up in Whitby, a port and ship-building center...

Geoge Ent, an English physician and anatomist, was born on Nov. 6. 1604, in the Netherlands; his father had fled England for religious reasons...

Jan Oort, a Dutch astronomer, died on Nov. 5, 1992, at the age of 92, having been born in the last year of the 19th century, Apr. 28, 1900.

On Nov. 4, 1818, Andrew Ure, a Scottish physician teaching in Glasgow, performed an unusual post-mortem experiment. The object of study was the...

The great Lisbon Earthquake struck Portugal, north Africa, and the eastern Atlantic seabed on Nov. 1, 1755, with Lisbon experiencing the most...