Linda Hall Library

Gilbert White – Scientist of the Day

Gilbert White, an English country vicar and amateur naturalist, died on June 26, 1793, at the age of 72.

Hermann Oberth – Scientist of the Day

Hermann Oberth, a German rocket scientist, was born on June 25, 1894, in Transylvania (modern Romania).

David Dale Owen – Scientist of the Day

David Dale Owen, a Scottish/American geologist, was born June 24, 1807, in New Lanark, Scotland, southeast of Glasgow.

Peter Johann Windler – Scientist of the Day

Peter Johann Windler was a German electrical experimenter whose life seems to be mostly undocumented.

Pier Luigi Nervi – Scientist of the Day

Pier Luigi Nervi was born June 21, 1891, and lived to age 87.

Roald Amundsen – Scientist of the Day

Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian polar explorer, disappeared on June 28, 1928, in a plane crash in the Arctic, and is presumed to have died with his fellow passengers; neither the plane nor any remains have ever been found.

Best Friend of Charleston – Scientist of the Day

Best Friend of Charleston, a steam locomotive, was built by the West Point Iron Foundry in New York City in the late summer of 1830, was delivered to the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company (SCC&RR) in the fall, and made its first run in Charleston on Christmas Day, 1830.

Jacques Ozanam – Scientist of the Day

Jacques Ozanam, a French mathematician, was born on June 16, 1640, in Saint-Olive, in east-central France.

Antoine-François de Fourcroy – Scientist of the Day

Antoine-François de Fourcroy, a French chemist, was born June 15, 1755, in Paris. 

Frank Chapman – Scientist of the Day

Frank Michler Chapman, an American ornithologist, was born on June 12, 1864, in West Englewood, New Jersey.

Georg Palitzsch – Scientist of the Day

Johann Georg Palitzsch, a German farmer, was born June 11, 1723, in Prohlis, now part of Dresden.

Carl Hagenbeck – Scientist of the Day

Carl Hagenbeck, Jr., a German dealer in exotic animals and a pioneer in zoo design, was born in Hamburg on June 10, 1844.

Pierre Duhem – Scientist of the Day

Pierre Duhem, a French theoretical physicist, and historian and philosopher of science, was born June 9, 1861, in Paris, near Montmartre.  

Hanno the elephant – Scientist of the Day

Hanno the elephant died on June 8, 1517, in his enclosure near the Vatican.  

Wilfrid Le Gros Clark – Scientist of the Day

Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, a British anatomist, anthropologist, and primatologist, was born June 5, 1895.

Edwin Clark – Scientist of the Day

The first boat lift on the Canal du Centre in Wallonia, Belgium, opened for traffic on June 4, 1888.

Otto Loewi – Scientist of the Day

Otto Loewi, a German/Austrian/American pharmacologist, was born in Frankfurt on June 3, 1873.