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Otto Loewi – Scientist of the Day

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

#Otto Loewi #pharmacology #neurotransmission #histsci #histSTM #20th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

Ptolemy of Alexandria – Scientist of the Day

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

#Ptolemy of Alexandria #cartography #geography #histsci #histSTM #2nd century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

Kip Thorne – Scientist of the Day

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

#Kip Thorne #physics #gravitation #general relativity #histsci #histSTM #20th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

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.

#Hal Laning #Apollo missions #computers #histsci #histSTM #19th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

Louis Agassiz – Scientist of the Day

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

#Louis Agassiz #zoology #Darwinism #histsci #histSTM #19th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

Artur Hazelius – Scientist of the Day

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

#Artur Hazelius #ethnography #museums #histsci #histSTM #19th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

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 #technology #calculators #difference engines #histsci #histSTM #19th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

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.

#Albrecht Dürer #geometry #polyhedra #histsci #histSTM #16th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

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.

#George Phillips Bond #astronomy #histsci #histSTM #19th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

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.

#Richard of Wallingford #clocks #astronomy #histsci #histSTM #14th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

Wilhelm Hofmeister – Scientist of the Day

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

#Wilhelm Hofmeister #botany #histsci #histSTM #19th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

Ephraim Chambers – Scientist of the Day

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

#Ephraim Chambers #encyclopedias #histsci #histSTM #18th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

Mikhail Tsvet – Scientist of the Day

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

#Mikhail Tsvet #Tswett #chromatography #chlorophyll #histsci #histSTM #20th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

Ole Worm – Scientist of the Day

Ole Worm, a Danish physician, naturalist, antiquarian, and collector, was born in Aarhus on May 13, 1588.

#Ole Worm #Georg Seger #museums #histsci #histSTM #17th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

Manuel de Castro Silva – Scientist of the Day

Manuel de Castro Silva, a Brazilian scientific illustrator, died Mar. 12, 1934, at a relatively young age; we don’t know when he was born.

#Manuel de Castro Silva #scientific illustration #epidemiology #microbiology #medicine #histsci #histSTM #20th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

Paul Nash – Scientist of the Day

Paul Nash, an English landscape artist, was born on May 11, 1889, in Kensington in London.

#Paul Nash #landscape art #Thomas Browne #antiquities #histsci #histSTM #20th century #17th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

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