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Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. (1846 - 1913)
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Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. (September 16, 1846 - December 31, 1913) was an American astronomer. Chandler is best remembered for his research on what is today known as the Chandler wobble. His research on this spanned nearly three decades. Read more
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Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857 - 1935)
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Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (17 September [O.S. 5 September] 1857 - 19 September 1935) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with his followers the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be o...
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Satoshi Furukawa
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said it is consulting with foreign space agencies to arrange the return on Nov. 17 of astronaut Satoshi Furukawa from the International Space Station. The return date for the 47-year-old astronaut, who has been on the ISS since June 10, will be set soon, JAXA s...
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Tom Gehrels (1925 - 2011)
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Tom Gehrels (born February 21, 1925, Haarlemmermeer, the Netherlands) is an American astronomer, Professor Planetary Sciences, and Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Gehrels pioneered the first photometric system of asteroids in the 50s, and wavelength dependence of polariza...
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Murray Gell-Mann
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Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. He is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, a Distinguished Fellow and co-founder of th...
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Jean-Pierre Serre
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Jean-Pierre Serre (born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician. He has made contributions in the fields of algebraic geometry, number theory, and topology. Read more
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736 - 1793)
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly (15 September 1736 - 12 November 1793) was a French astronomer and orator, one of the leaders of the early part of the French Revolution. He was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Read more
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Robert Sinclair Dietz (1914 - 1995)
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Robert Sinclair Dietz (September 14, 1914 - May 19, 1995) was Professor of Geology at Arizona State University. Dietz was a marine geologistgeophysicist and oceanographer who conducted pioneering research along with Harry Hammond Hess concerning seafloor spreading, published as early as 196...
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Karl Taylor Compton (1887 - 1954)
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Karl Taylor Compton (September 14, 1887 - June 22, 1954) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Read more
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Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909 - 1989)
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Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC and Bar, MID, FRS, FZS, (14 September 1909 - 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer and sportsman. Read more
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William Bowen Bonnor
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William Bowen Bonnor is a mathematician and gravitation physicist best known for his research into astrophysics, cosmology and general relativity. For most of his academic career he has been a professor of mathematics at the University of London. William Bonnor was born in London on 13 September...
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Wilhelm Filchner (1877 - 1957)
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Wilhelm Filchner (September 13, 1877 - May 7, 1957) was a German explorer. At the age of 21, he participated in his first expedition, which led him to Russia. Two years later, he travelled alone and on horseback through the Pamir Mountains, from Osh to Murgabh to the upper Wakhan to Tashkurgan and back...
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Constantin Carathéodory (1873 - 1950)
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Constantin Carathéodory (September 13, 1873 - February 2, 1950) was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. His work also includes important results in conformal representations an...
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Spartacus
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Spartacus (c. 109-71 BC) was a famous leader of the slaves in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. The ancient sources agree that Spartacus was a Thracian. Plutarch describes him as "a Thracian of Nomadic stock". [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
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Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière 1725 - 1792)
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Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière (September 12, 1725 - October 22, 1792) was a French astronomer. He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes kn...
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