Linda Hall Library

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.

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.