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Laura Bassi (1711 - 1778)
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Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (29 November 1711 - 20 February 1778) was an Italian scientist, the first woman to officially teach at a university in Europe. A 31 km crater on Venus honours her name, along with a high school (language, social sciences and music) and a city street in Bologna. Read more
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Luke Howard (1772 - 1864)
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Luke Howard FRS (28 November 1772 - 21 March 1864) was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. Read mor...
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Karen Sheila Gillan
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Karen Sheila Gillan (born 28 November 1987) is a Scottish actress and former model who is best known for her portrayal of Amelia "Amy" Pond in the British science fiction series Doctor Who from 2010 until 2012. Read more
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Panayotis Varotsos
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Panayotis Varotsos (born 1947) is a Greek physicist and full professor in the Department of Physics of the University of Athens since 1986, notable for his VAN method to predict earthquakes. His group claims the ability to identify electromagnetic signals that are precursors to earthquakes. The...
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Russell Alan Hulse
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Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"...
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Jim Wetherbee
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James Donald "Wxb" Wetherbee (born November 27, 1952) is an American naval officer and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six Space Shuttle missions and is the only American to have commanded five spaceflight missions. Read more
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Giovanni Giorgi (1871 - 1950)
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Giovanni Giorgi (27 November 1871 - 19 August 1950) was an Italian electrical engineer who invented the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System (SI). Read more
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Walter Frederick Gale (1865 - 1945)
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Walter Frederick Gale (27 November 1865 - 1 June 1945) was an Australian banker. Gale was born in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales. He had a strong interest in astronomy and built his first telescope in 1884. A crater on Mars, Gale Crater, was named in his honour. It was selected as the 2012 landing s...
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Valentin Danilov
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Freed scientist finds little change or hope in Russia Grey, pale and thin, Valentin Danilov has changed more than the country that jailed him in 2004 for selling state secrets to China. The 66-year-old Russian physicist, whose face is now criss-crossed with deep wrinkles, could not be blamed for su...
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Horace Lamb (1849 - 1934)
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Sir Horace Lamb FRS (27 November 1849 - 4 December 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1879) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). Read more
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Dr Mike Joy
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Association of Scientists stands behind Dr Mike Joy The New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS) is saddened by some of the recent media commentary on the actions of Dr Mike Joy, Massey University, in commenting in overseas media on the truth of the 100% Pure New Zealand brand. [url=http://www...
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Rudolph Koenig (1832 - 1901)
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Karl Rudolph Koenig (German: Rudolf Koenig; November 26, 1832 - October 2, 1901), known by himself and others as Rudolph Koenig, was a German physicist, chiefly concerned with acoustic phenomena. Read more
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Rodney Jory
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Rodney Leonard (Rod) Jory AM, (born 26 November 1938), is an Australian physicist noted for establishing and running the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF/NSSS) and for his contributions to Australian teams which have competed at the International Physics Olympiad. Read more
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Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (1678 - 1771)
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Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678 - 20 February 1771) was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. Read more
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Boris Borisovich Yegorov (1937 - 1994)
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Boris Borisovich Yegorov (November 26, 1937, Moscow - September 12, 1994, Moscow) was a Soviet physician-cosmonaut and he became the first physician to make a space flight. Read more
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