Linda Hall Library

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.

Ptolemy of Alexandria – Scientist of the Day

Ptolemy of Alexandria, sometimes called Claudius Ptolemy, lived in the first half of the second century CE.

Kip Thorne – Scientist of the Day

Kip Thorne, an American astrophysicist, was born June 1, 1940, in Logan, Utah.

Hal Laning – Scientist of the Day

J. Halcombe Laning, Jr., an American computer software engineer known as Hal Laning, died on May 29, 2012, at the age of 92.

Louis Agassiz – Scientist of the Day

Louis Agassiz, a Swiss/American naturalist, was born May 28, 1807, in the canton of Fribourg.

Artur Hazelius – Scientist of the Day

Artur Hazelius, a Swedish anthropologist and ethnological collector, died May 27, 1901, at the age of 67.

Sally Ride – Scientist of the Day

Sally Kristen Ride, an American astronaut and physicist, was born in Los Angeles on May 26, 1951.