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Lilian Suzette Gibbs (1870-1925)
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Lilian Suzette Gibbs (1870-1925) was a British botanist who worked for the British Museum in London. She was the first woman and the first botanist to ascend Mount Kinabalu in February 1910. Read more
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Mortimer Wheeler (1890 - 1976)
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Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, FBA, FSA (10 September 1890 - 22 July 1976), was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century. Read more
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Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797 - 1858)
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Carl Gustaf Mosander (Kalmar 10 September 1797 - Lovön, Stockholm County 15 October 1858) was a Swedish chemist. He discovered the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium. Read more
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Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Read more
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Arthur Holly Compton (1892 - 1962)
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Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 - March 15, 1962) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect. He served as Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1945 to 1953. Read more
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Philip Diamond
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Diamond to shine among SKA experts The Australian scientist will be at the head of a collective of some of the world's top astronomical minds as they ponder a lot more than just the properties of individual "little stars". He has just been appointed as director-general of the SKA Organisa...
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Hans Georg Dehmelt
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Hans Georg Dehmelt (born 9 September 1922 in Görlitz, Germany) is a German-born American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 (the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster R...
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Al-Farghani
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Al-Farghani, from the Tigris to the Nile Commissioned by a Caliph, Al-Farghani made a long journey, from his home in present-day Uzbekistan, through Iraq and finally to Egypt to add his extensive knowledge to the Nilometer - by which life on the Nile depends on [url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/...
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Feng Kang (1920 - 1993)
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Feng Kang (September 9, 1920 - August 17, 1993) was a Chinese mathematician and scientist. Read more
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of al...
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Joseph Mason Baldwin (1878 - 1945)
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Joseph Mason Baldwin (9 September 1878 - 6 July 1945) was Victorian government astronomer 1920-1943. He was chief assistant at the Melbourne Observatory from 1908, acting Director from 1915 and served as government astronomer in the state of Victoria from 1920-1943. Baldwin was president, Ro...
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Michael Brant Shermer
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Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Read more
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Judith Hann
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Judith Hann (born 8 September 1942) at Littleover, Derby, Derbyshire, England, is a freelance broadcaster and writer specialising in science, food and the environment. Hann presented BBC's Tomorrow's World between 1974 and 1994. She has since made guest appearances on various TV shows, and has...
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Saad Al-Hilli (1962 - 2012)
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On behalf of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, Dr Matt Perkins, CEO has issued the following statement. I am deeply shocked and saddened to confirm that one of SSTL's long-term contractors, Saad Al-Hilli, has been formally identified as one of the victims of the shootings which occurred in the Fren...
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August Joseph Ignaz Toepler (1836 - 1912)
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August Joseph Ignaz Toepler (7 September 1836 - 6 March 1912) was a German physicist known for his experiments in electrostatics. Read more
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