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Klaus Keil
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A University of Hawaii scientist known for groundbreaking work on meteorites is due to be honoured at a conference on Kauai next week. Klaus Keil is known for pioneering quantitative studies of minerals in meteorites and making important contributions to the understanding of the nature, origin,...
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Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (1855 - 1913)
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Léon Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (November 5, 1855 in Paris, France - January 2, 1913 in Cannes, France) was a French meteorologist who became famous for his discovery of the stratosphere. Read more
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Melvin Schwartz (1932 - 2006)
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Melvin Schwartz (November 2, 1932 - August 28, 2006) was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discove...
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Richard Edward Taylor
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Richard Edward Taylor, CC, FRS, FRSC (born November 2, 1929 in Medicine Hat, Alberta) is a Canadian-American professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University. In 1990, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning...
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Harlow Shapley (1885 - 1972)
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Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 - October 20, 1972) was an American astronomer.Read more
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George Boole (1815 - 1864)
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George Boole (2 November 1815 - 8 December 1864) was an English mathematician and philosopher.As the inventor of Boolean logic - the basis of modern digital computer logic - Boole is regarded in hindsight as a founder of the field of computer science.Read more
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Christina Scott
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Tributes for top science journalist Condolences are pouring in for the doyen of South African science journalists, Christina Scott, who died of severe injuries sustained in a freak parking accident in Observatory yesterday. The accident occurred in the parking area of the Black River office whe...
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Louis Winslow Austin (1867 - 1932)
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Louis Winslow Austin (October 30, 1867 - June 27, 1932) was an American physicist known for his research on long-range radio transmissions.Read more
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Robert Channing Seamans, Jr. (1918 - 2008)
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Robert Channing Seamans, Jr. (October 30, 1918 - June 28, 2008) was a NASA Deputy Administrator and MIT professor.Read more
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Ronald Greeley (1939 - 2011)
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Ronald Greeley, a Regents' Professor of planetary geology at Arizona State University who has been involved in lunar and planetary studies since 1967 and has contributed significantly to our understanding of planetary bodies within our solar system, died Oct. 27, in Tempe. He was 72. [url=http:...
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Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845 - 1888)
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Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (28 October 1845 - 16 April 1888) was a Polish physicist and chemist. Read more
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Lewis Boss (1846 - 1912)
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Lewis Boss (October 26, 1846 - 5 October, 1912) was an American astronomer. Read more
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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849 - 1917)
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Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (October 26, 1849 - August 3, 1917) was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of differential equations and to group theory. He also gave the first full proof for the Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Read more
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Shiing-Shen Chern (1911 - 2004)
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Shiing-Shen Chern (October 26, 1911 - December 3, 2004) was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century. Read more
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Evariste Galois (1811 - 1832)
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Evariste Galois (October 25, 1811 - May 31, 1832) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-la-Reine. Read more
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