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Scientists featured in the daily entries
| Birth Year |
Last Name |
Other names |
| 15th Century |
| 1452 |
da Vinci |
Leonardo |
| 1473 |
Copernicus |
Nicolas |
| 16th Century |
| 1501 |
Fuchs |
Leonhart |
| 1512 |
Mercator |
Gerardus |
| 1514 |
Vesalius |
Andreas |
| 1544 |
Gilbert |
William |
| 1546 |
Brahe |
Tycho |
| 1561 |
Bacon |
Francis |
| 1564 |
Galilei |
Galileo |
| 1571 |
Kepler |
Johannes |
| 1578 |
Harvey |
William |
| 17th Century |
| 1601 |
Fermat |
Pierre de |
| 1608 |
Torricelli |
Evangelista |
| 1618 |
Grimaldi |
Francesco Maria |
| 1620 |
Picard |
Jean |
| 1623 |
Pascal |
Blaise |
| 1624 |
Sydenham |
Thomas |
| 1627 |
Boyle |
Robert |
| 1628 |
Malpighi |
Marcello |
| 1628 |
Ray |
John |
| 1629 |
Huygens |
Christiaan |
| 1632 |
Leeuwenhoek |
Antony van |
| 1632 |
Wren |
Christopher |
| 1635 |
Hooke |
Robert |
| 1638 |
Steno |
Nicolaus |
| 1642 |
Newton |
Isaac |
| 1646 |
Flamsteed |
John |
| 1647 |
Papin |
Denis |
| 1654 |
Lancisi |
Giovanni Maria |
| 1656 |
Halley |
Edmund |
| 1663 |
Newcomen |
Thomas |
| 1677 |
Hales |
Stephen |
| 1683 |
Reaumur |
Rene Antoine Ferchault de |
| 1685 |
Taylor |
Brook |
| 1686 |
Fahrenheit |
Gabriel |
| 1698 |
Maupertius |
Pierre Louis Moreau de |
| 1700 |
Bernoulli |
Daniel |
| 18th Century |
| 1701 |
Celsius |
Anders |
| 1705 |
Artedi |
Petrus |
| 1706 |
Chatelet |
Emilie du |
| 1706 |
Franklin |
Benjamin |
| 1707 |
Euler |
Leonhard |
| 1707 |
Linnaeus |
Carl |
| 1709 |
Vaucanson |
Jacques de |
| 1717 |
D'Alembert |
Jean le Rond |
| 1718 |
Agnesi |
Maria Gaetana |
| 1718 |
Macquer |
Pierre Joseph |
| 1726 |
Hutton |
James |
| 1728 |
Boulton |
Matthew |
| 1729 |
Spallanzani |
Lazarro |
| 1730 |
Wedgewood |
Josiah |
| 1731 |
Cavendish |
Henry |
| 1731 |
Darwin |
Erasmus |
| 1732 |
Arkwright |
Richad |
| 1732 |
Wilcke |
Johan Carl |
| 1733 |
Priestley |
Joseph |
| 1735 |
Bergman |
Torbern Olaf |
| 1736 |
Watt |
James |
| 1737 |
Galvani |
Luigi |
| 1738 |
Herschel |
William |
| 1741 |
Withering |
William |
| 1741 |
Young |
Arthur |
| 1742 |
Scheele |
Carl Wilhelm |
| 1743 |
Cartwright |
Edmund |
| 1743 |
Klaproth |
Martin Heinrich |
| 1743 |
Lavoisier |
Antoine Laurent |
| 1744 |
Lamarck |
Jean Baptiste |
| 1745 |
Montgolfier |
Jacques-Etienne |
| 1745 |
Volta |
Alessandro |
| 1746 |
Charles |
Jacques Alexandre Cesar |
| 1746 |
Curtis |
William |
| 1746 |
Monge |
Gaspard |
| 1749 |
Delambre |
Jean Baptiste Joseph |
| 1749 |
Jenner |
Edward |
| 1750 |
Herschel |
Caroline |
| 1755 |
Fourcroy |
Antoine Francoise de |
| 1756 |
Chaptal |
Jean Antoine Claude |
| 1757 |
Telford |
Thomas |
| 1765 |
Whitney |
Eli |
| 1766 |
Dalton |
John |
| 1766 |
Malthus |
Thomas Robert |
| 1769 |
Cuvier |
George Leopold |
| 1771 |
Bichat |
Marie Francois Xavier |
| 1771 |
Trevithick |
Richard |
| 1775 |
Ampere |
Andre Marie |
| 1776 |
Germain |
Sophie |
| 1776 |
Ritter |
Johann Wilhelm |
| 1777 |
Gauss |
Karl Friederick |
| 1777 |
Latour |
Cagniard de |
| 1778 |
Davy |
Humphry |
| 1778 |
Gay-Lussac |
Joseph Louis |
| 1780 |
Somerville |
Mary Fairfax |
| 1781 |
Stephenson |
George |
| 1783 |
Magendie |
Francoise |
| 1783 |
Sturgeon |
William |
| 1785 |
Audubon |
John James |
| 1786 |
Arago |
Dominique |
| 1786 |
Chevreul |
Michel Eugene |
| 1786 |
Seguin |
Marc |
| 1787 |
Daguerre |
Louis Jacques Mande |
| 1787 |
Fraunhofer |
Joseph von |
| 1789 |
Bright |
Richard |
| 1789 |
Ohm |
Georg Simon |
| 1790 |
Mobius |
August Ferdinand |
| 1790 |
Stirling |
Robert |
| 1791 |
Babbage |
Charles |
| 1791 |
Faraday |
Michael |
| 1791 |
Mercer |
John |
| 1791 |
Morse |
Samuel Finley Breese |
| 1794 |
Marsh |
James |
| 1797 |
Lyell |
Charles |
| 1799 |
Schonbein |
Christian Friedrich |
| 1800 |
Dumas |
Jean Baptiste Andre |
| 19th Century |
| 1803 |
Ericsson |
John |
| 1803 |
Liebig |
Justus Von |
| 1803 |
Stephenson |
Robert |
| 1804 |
Gould |
John |
| 1805 |
Hamilton |
William Rowan |
| 1806 |
Maury |
Matthew Fontaine |
| 1807 |
Agassiz |
Jean Louis Rodolphe |
| 1808 |
Pritchard |
Charles |
| 1809 |
Darwin |
Charles Robert |
| 1809 |
Holmes |
Oliver Wendell |
| 1809 |
Kane |
Robert John |
| 1809 |
McCormick |
Cyrus Hall |
| 1810 |
Schwann |
Theodore |
| 1811 |
Bunsen |
Robert Wilhelm |
| 1811 |
Draper |
John William |
| 1811 |
Kelly |
William |
| 1811 |
Le Verrier |
Urbain Jean Joseph |
| 1811 |
Otis |
Elisha Graves |
| 1811 |
Simpson |
James Young |
| 1811 |
Singer |
Isaac Merrit |
| 1813 |
Andrews |
Thomas |
| 1813 |
Bernard |
Claude |
| 1813 |
Parkes |
Alexander |
| 1814 |
Lawes |
John Bennet |
| 1814 |
Mayer |
Julius Robert von |
| 1815 |
Boole |
George |
| 1815 |
Lovelace |
Augusta Ada Byron, Lady |
| 1815 |
Naudin |
Charles |
| 1815 |
Wells |
Horace |
| 1816 |
Siemens |
Ernst Werner von |
| 1816 |
Williamson |
William Crawford |
| 1817 |
Corliss |
George Henry |
| 1817 |
Hooker |
Joseph Dalton |
| 1817 |
Kolliker |
Rudolph Albert Von |
| 1817 |
Kopp |
Hermann Franz Moritz |
| 1818 |
Joule |
James Prescott |
| 1818 |
Playfair |
Lyon |
| 1818 |
Semmelweiss |
Ignaz Philipp |
| 1819 |
Drake |
Edwin Laurentine |
| 1819 |
Foucault |
Leon |
| 1820 |
Nightingale |
Florence |
| 1820 |
Tyndall |
John |
| 1821 |
Blackwell |
Elizabeth |
| 1821 |
Cayley |
Arthur |
| 1821 |
Helmholtz |
Herman |
| 1821 |
Virchow |
Rudolph Ludwig Carl |
| 1822 |
Mendel |
Johann Gregor |
| 1822 |
Pasteur |
Louis |
| 1823 |
Siemens |
Charles William |
| 1823 |
Wallace |
Alfred Russel |
| 1823 |
Whitehead |
Robert |
| 1824 |
Thomson |
William (Lord Kelvin) |
| 1824 |
Williamson |
Alexander |
| 1825 |
Frankland |
Edward |
| 1825 |
Huxley |
Thomas Henry |
| 1827 |
Lister |
Joseph |
| 1828 |
Swan |
Joseph Wilson |
| 1831 |
Maxwell |
James Clerk |
| 1832 |
Sachs |
Ferdinand Gustav Julius von |
| 1833 |
Bert |
Paul |
| 1833 |
Nobel |
Alfred Bernhard |
| 1834 |
Mendeleeff |
Dmitri Ivanovich |
| 1835 |
Hensen |
Victor |
| 1835 |
Newcomb |
Simon |
| 1837 |
Hyatt |
John Wesley |
| 1837 |
Kuhne |
Wilhelm Friedrich |
| 1838 |
Hitzig |
Eduard |
| 1838 |
Muir |
John |
| 1840 |
Kohlrausch |
Friedrich Wilhelm |
| 1842 |
Dewar |
James |
| 1843 |
Babcock |
Stephen Moulton |
| 1844 |
Boltzmann |
Ludvig |
| 1844 |
Golgi |
Camillo |
| 1844 |
Manson |
Patrick |
| 1845 |
De Laval |
Carl Gustaf Patrik |
| 1845 |
Laveran |
Charles Louis Alphonse |
| 1845 |
Levinstein |
Ivan |
| 1845 |
Me(t)chnikov |
Ilya (Elie) |
| 1845 |
Roentgen |
Wilhelm Conrad |
| 1847 |
Bell |
Alexander Graham |
| 1847 |
Edison |
Thomas Alva |
| 1847 |
Russell |
Frederick Stratten |
| 1848 |
Macewen |
William |
| 1849 |
Brinell |
Johann August |
| 1849 |
Burbank |
Luther |
| 1849 |
Pavlov |
Ivan Petrovich |
| 1851 |
Balfour |
Francis Maitland |
| 1851 |
Lodge |
Oliver Joseph |
| 1851 |
Reed |
Walter |
| 1852 |
Becquerel |
Antoine Henri |
| 1852 |
Fischer |
Herman Emil |
| 1852 |
Koch |
Robert |
| 1852 |
Lindemann |
Carl Louis Ferdinand |
| 1854 |
Behring |
Emil Adolph von |
| 1854 |
Ehrlich |
Paul |
| 1854 |
Poincare |
Jules Henri |
| 1855 |
Bower |
Frederick Orpen |
| 1855 |
Cross |
Charles Frederick |
| 1855 |
Friese-Greene |
William |
| 1856 |
Freud |
Sigmund |
| 1856 |
Picard |
Charles Emil |
| 1856 |
Tesla |
Nikola |
| 1856 |
Thomson |
Joseph John |
| 1857 |
Binet |
Alfred |
| 1857 |
Douglass |
Andrew Ellicott |
| 1857 |
Hertz |
Heinrich Rudolph |
| 1857 |
Koller |
Carl |
| 1857 |
Ross |
Ronald |
| 1857 |
Sessions |
Kate |
| 1858 |
Planck |
Max Karl Ernst Ludvig |
| 1859 |
Curie |
Pierre |
| 1860 |
Bayliss |
William Maddock |
| 1860 |
Buchner |
Eduard |
| 1860 |
Haldane |
John Scott |
| 1862 |
Bascom |
Florence |
| 1862 |
Lumiere |
Auguste |
| 1863 |
Bailey |
Florence Merriam |
| 1863 |
Cannon |
Annie Jump |
| 1863 |
Wolf |
Maximilian |
| 1864 |
Nernst |
Herman Walther |
| 1864 |
Wien |
Wilhelm |
| 1865 |
Harden |
Arthur |
| 1865 |
Zeeman |
Pieter |
| 1866 |
Broom |
Robert |
| 1866 |
Fredholm |
Eric Ivar |
| 1866 |
Morgan |
Thomas Hunt |
| 1866 |
Starling |
Ernest Henry |
| 1867 |
Curie |
Marya (Marie) Sklodowska |
| 1867 |
Fibiger |
Johannes Andreas Grib |
| 1867 |
Wright |
Wilbur |
| 1868 |
Hale |
George Ellery |
| 1868 |
Millikan |
Robert Andrews |
| 1868 |
Sorensen |
Soren Peter Lauritz |
| 1868 |
Young |
Grace Chisholm |
| 1869 |
Child |
Charles Manning |
| 1869 |
Cushing |
Harvey |
| 1869 |
Hamilton |
Alice |
| 1869 |
Levene |
Phoebus Aaron Theodor |
| 1869 |
Poulsen |
Valdemar |
| 1869 |
Spemann |
Hans |
| 1871 |
Ricketts |
Howard Taylor |
| 1871 |
Rutherford |
Ernest |
| 1871 |
Sabin |
Florence Rena |
| 1871 |
Wright |
Orville |
| 1872 |
Langevin |
Paul |
| 1873 |
Sidgwick |
Nevil Vincent |
| 1874 |
Erlanger |
Joseph |
| 1874 |
Marconi |
Guglielmo |
| 1875 |
Jung |
Carl Gustav |
| 1877 |
Aston |
Francis William |
| 1877 |
Beebe |
Charles William |
| 1878 |
Meitner |
Lise |
| 1878 |
Nieuwland |
Julius Arthur |
| 1879 |
Einstein |
Albert |
| 1879 |
Freyssinet |
Marie Eugene Leon |
| 1879 |
Hahn |
Otto |
| 1879 |
Schmidt |
Bernhard Voldemar |
| 1880 |
Wegener |
Alfred Lothar |
| 1881 |
Evans |
Alice |
| 1881 |
Fleming |
Alexander |
| 1881 |
Langmuir |
Irving |
| 1882 |
Born |
Max |
| 1882 |
de Havilland |
Geoffrey |
| 1882 |
Geiger |
Hans Wilhelm |
| 1882 |
Goddard |
Robert Hutchings |
| 1882 |
Morgan |
Ann Haven |
| 1882 |
Noether |
Amelie Emmy |
| 1883 |
Haworth |
Walter N. |
| 1883 |
Hess |
Victor Franz |
| 1883 |
Warburg |
Otto Heinrich |
| 1884 |
Andrews |
Roy Chapman |
| 1884 |
Bergius |
Friedrich |
| 1885 |
Bohr |
Niels Henrik David |
| 1885 |
Hazen |
Elizabeth Lee |
| 1885 |
Minot |
George Richards |
| 1886 |
Heilbron |
Ian Morris |
| 1886 |
Partington |
James Riddick |
| 1887 |
Moseley |
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys |
| 1887 |
Schrodinger |
Erwin |
| 1888 |
Baird |
John Logie |
| 1888 |
Byrd |
Richard Evelyn |
| 1888 |
Heinkel |
Ernst |
| 1889 |
Hubble |
Edwin Powell |
| 1889 |
Midgley |
Thomas |
| 1890 |
Muller |
Herman Joseph |
| 1891 |
Banting |
Frederick Grant |
| 1891 |
Chadwick |
James |
| 1892 |
Haldane |
John Burdon Sanderson |
| 1892 |
Houdry |
Eugene Jules |
| 1893 |
Szent-Gyorgyi |
Albert von |
| 1894 |
Wiener |
Norbert |
| 1896 |
Cori |
Gerty Radnitz |
| 1897 |
Edinger |
Johanna Gabrielle |
| 1897 |
Joliot-Curie |
Irene |
| 1899 |
Auerbach |
Charlotte |
| 1899 |
Theiler |
Max |
| 1900 |
Aiken |
Howard Hathaway |
| 1900 |
Gabor |
Dennis |
| 1900 |
Krebs |
Hans Adolph |
| 1900 |
Oort |
Jan Hendrik |
| 20th Century |
| 1901 |
Alexander |
Hattie |
| 1901 |
Andersen |
Dorothy |
| 1901 |
Fermi |
Enrico |
| 1901 |
Mead |
Margaret |
| 1901 |
Menzel |
Donald Howard |
| 1901 |
Pauling |
Linus |
| 1901 |
Van de Graaff |
Robert Jemison |
| 1901 |
Whinefield |
John Rex |
| 1902 |
Condon |
Edward Uhler |
| 1902 |
Lindbergh |
Charles A. |
| 1902 |
McClintock |
Barbara |
| 1902 |
Tiselius |
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin |
| 1903 |
Boyd |
William |
| 1903 |
Flugge-Lotz |
Irmgard |
| 1903 |
Leakey |
Louis Seymour Bazett |
| 1903 |
Lonsdale |
Kathleen Yardley |
| 1903 |
Spock |
Benjamin |
| 1903 |
Von Neumann |
John |
| 1904 |
Frisch |
Otto Robert |
| 1904 |
Neel |
Louis Eugene Felix |
| 1904 |
Oppenheimer |
Robert |
| 1905 |
Bloch |
Felix |
| 1905 |
Chargaff |
Erwin |
| 1905 |
Segre |
Emilio |
| 1905 |
Von Euler |
Ulf Svante |
| 1906 |
Bethe |
Hans Albrecht |
| 1906 |
Goeppert-Mayer |
Maria |
| 1906 |
Hopper |
Grace Brewster Murray |
| 1906 |
Korolev |
Sergei Pavlovich |
| 1906 |
Prelog |
Vladimir |
| 1906 |
Stewart |
Alice |
| 1906 |
Tombaugh |
Clyde William |
| 1906 |
Tomonaga |
Sin-Itiro |
| 1907 |
Carson |
Rachel Louise |
| 1907 |
Tinbergen |
Nicolaas |
| 1907 |
Whittle |
Frank |
| 1907 |
Young |
John Zachary |
| 1908 |
Bardeen |
John |
| 1908 |
Essen |
Louis |
| 1908 |
Hershey |
Alfred Day |
| 1908 |
Teller |
Edward |
| 1909 |
Land |
Edwin |
| 1909 |
Levi-Montalcini |
Rita |
| 1910 |
Cousteau |
Jacques-Yves |
| 1910 |
Hodgkin |
Dorothy Crowfoot |
| 1910 |
Martin |
Archer John Porter |
| 1910 |
Shockley |
William Bradford |
| 1911 |
Alvarez |
Walter Luis |
| 1911 |
Katz |
Bernard |
| 1911 |
Reber |
Grote |
| 1912 |
Axelrod |
Julius |
| 1912 |
Palade |
George Emil |
| 1912 |
Porter |
Keith Roberts |
| 1912 |
Purcell |
Edward Mills |
| 1912 |
RMS Titanic |
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| 1912 |
Seaborg |
Glen Theodore |
| 1912 |
Turing |
Alan Mathison |
| 1912 |
Wu |
Chien-Shiun |
| 1913 |
Abraham |
Edward Penley |
| 1913 |
Leakey |
Mary Douglas |
| 1913 |
Moore |
Stanford |
| 1913 |
Russell |
Elizabeth Shull |
| 1913 |
Sperry |
Roger Wolcott |
| 1914 |
Borlaug |
Norman |
| 1914 |
Perutz |
Max Ferdinand |
| 1914 |
Ray |
Dixie Lee |
| 1914 |
Salk |
Jonas Edward |
| 1915 |
Hofstadter |
Robert |
| 1915 |
Medawar |
Peter Brian |
| 1915 |
Townes |
Charles Hard |
| 1916 |
Crick |
Francis Harry Compton |
| 1917 |
Kendrew |
John Cowdery |
| 1917 |
Ramey |
Estelle |
| 1917 |
Woodward |
Robert Burns |
| 1918 |
Barton |
Derek Harold Richard |
| 1918 |
Elion |
Gertrude B. |
| 1918 |
Feynman |
Richard |
| 1918 |
Karl |
Jerome |
| 1918 |
Kornberg |
Arthur |
| 1918 |
Krebs |
Edwin G. |
| 1918 |
Ryle |
Martin |
| 1919 |
Eckert |
John Presper |
| 1919 |
Hillary |
Edmund Percival |
| 1919 |
Hounsfield |
Godfrey Newbold |
| 1920 |
Asimov |
Isaac |
| 1920 |
Franklin |
Rosalind Elsie |
| 1921 |
Daly |
Marie Maynard |
| 1921 |
Friend |
Charlotte |
| 1921 |
Karle |
Isabella |
| 1921 |
Yalow |
Rosalyn Sussman |
| 1922 |
Barnard |
Christian Neethling |
| 1922 |
Khorana |
Har Gobind |
| 1923 |
Simpson |
Joanne |
| 1924 |
Black |
James Whyte |
| 1924 |
Cormack |
Allen McCleod |
| 1924 |
Granville |
Evelyn Boyd |
| 1925 |
Cray |
Seymour |
| 1926 |
Glaser |
Donald Arthur |
| 1927 |
Ancker-Johnson |
Betsy |
| 1927 |
Maiman |
Theodore Harold |
| 1928 |
Morris |
Desmond John |
| 1928 |
Shoemaker |
Eugene Merle |
| 1928 |
Watson |
James Dewey |
| 1930 |
Aldrin |
Edwin E. (Buzz) |
| 1930 |
Armstrong |
Neil Alden |
| 1931 |
Richter |
Burton |
| 1932 |
Bartlett |
Neil |
| 1932 |
Ehrlich |
Paul Ralph |
| 1932 |
Fossey |
Dian |
| 1932 |
Gilbert |
Walter |
| 1932 |
Glashow |
Sheldon Lee |
| 1934 |
Goodall |
Jane |
| 1934 |
Sagan |
Carl Edward |
| 1934 |
Temin |
Howard Martin |
| 1936 |
Boyer |
Herbert Wayne |
| 1936 |
Wilson |
Robert Woodrow |
| 1939 |
Vine |
Frederick John |
| 1940 |
Josephson |
Brian David |
| 1940 |
Sinclair |
Clive Marles |
| 1942 |
Hawking |
Stephen William |
| 1943 |
Bell Burnell |
Jocelyn |
| 1943 |
Zipser |
Birgit |
| 1944 |
Leakey |
Richard Erskine Frere |
| 1946 |
Hrdy |
Sarah Blaffer |
| 1946 |
Jackson |
Shirley Ann |
| 1946 |
Wong-Staal |
Flossie |
| 1951 |
Ride |
Sally Kristin |
| 1955 |
Gates |
William |
| 1956 |
Jemison |
Mae Carol |
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