Linda Hall Library

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.

Pehr Georg Scheutz – Scientist of the Day

Pehr Georg Scheutz, a Swedish publisher and inventor, died on May 22, 1873, at the age of 87.

Albrecht Dürer – Scientist of the Day

Albrecht Dürer, a German painter, engraver, and theorist on perspective, proportion, and geometry, was born in Nuremberg on May 21, 1471.  

George Phillips Bond – Scientist of the Day

George Phillips Bond, an American astronomer, was born May 20, 1825, in Dorchester, Mass., now part of Boston.

Richard of Wallingford – Scientist of the Day

Richard of Wallingford, an English abbot and astronomer, was born in Wallingford England, around 1292, and died at St. Albans in 1336, at the age of 44 or so.

Wilhelm Hofmeister – Scientist of the Day

Wilhelm Hofmeister, a German botanist, was born on May 18, 1824, in Leipzig in Saxony.

Ephraim Chambers – Scientist of the Day

Ephraim Chambers, an English encyclopedist, died on May 15, 1740.  

Mikhail Tsvet – Scientist of the Day

Mikhail Tsvet, a Russian/Italian botanist, was born on May 14, 1872, in Asti, Italy.