Scientists

What lands on a date

• 01-08 Alfred Russel Wallace · Field naturalist who independently conceived natural selection. source
• 01-08 Stephen Hawking · Cosmologist who showed black holes radiate. source
• 01-22 Francis Bacon · Statesman who championed inductive method for natural philosophy. source
• 01-25 Robert Boyle · Natural philosopher whose gas law advanced chemistry. source
• 02-08 Dmitri Mendeleev · Chemist who arranged the elements into the periodic table. source
• 02-12 Charles Darwin · Naturalist whose Origin of Species explained evolution. source
• 02-15 Galileo Galilei · Physicist who married experiment to mathematics. source
• 02-16 Ernst Haeckel · Biologist who coined ecology and drew radiolarian plates. source
• 02-19 Svante Arrhenius · Chemist who explained ionic dissociation and greenhouse warming. source
• 02-28 Linus Pauling · Chemist and peace campaigner who explained the chemical bond. source
• 03-08 Otto Hahn · Radiochemist who detected uranium fission products. source
• 03-14 Albert Einstein · Physicist whose relativity redefined space, time, and gravity. source
• 03-24 Joseph Priestley · Chemist and clergyman who isolated oxygen. source
• 04-01 William Harvey · Physician who demonstrated the circulation of the blood. source
• 04-03 Jane Goodall · Primatologist whose chimpanzee studies redefined animal behaviour. source
• 04-06 James Watson · Biologist who described DNA's double helix with Crick. source
• 05-11 Richard Feynman · Theoretical physicist and celebrated teacher of quantum electrodynamics. source
• 05-12 Dorothy Hodgkin · Crystallographer who solved penicillin and insulin structures. source
• 05-23 Carl Linnaeus · Swedish botanist whose binomial naming organized all life. source
• 05-27 Rachel Carson · Marine biologist whose Silent Spring launched environmentalism. source
• 05-29 Peter Higgs · Physicist who proposed the mechanism behind particle mass. source
• 05-31 Chien-Shiung Wu · Physicist who disproved parity conservation in beta decay. source
• 06-08 Francis Crick · Molecular biologist who co-proposed DNA's double helix. source
• 06-13 James Clerk Maxwell · Physicist whose equations unified electricity, magnetism, and light. source
• 06-16 Barbara McClintock · Geneticist who discovered jumping genes in maize. source
• 06-26 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin · Physicist who defined absolute temperature. source
• 07-18 Robert Hooke · Microscopist who coined the term cell. source
• 07-20 Gregor Mendel · Augustinian friar whose pea experiments founded genetics. source
• 07-25 Rosalind Franklin · Chemist whose X-ray images revealed DNA's helix. source
• 08-08 Paul Dirac · Theorist whose equation predicted antimatter. source
• 08-12 Erwin Schrödinger · Austrian physicist who wrote the quantum wave equation. source
• 08-26 Antoine Lavoisier · Chemist who named oxygen and overturned phlogiston. source
• 08-30 Ernest Rutherford · New Zealander who split the atom and named the nucleus. source
• 09-06 John Dalton · Quaker teacher who revived atomic theory. source
• 09-14 Alexander von Humboldt · Naturalist who unified geography, biology, and climate study. source
• 09-22 Michael Faraday · Bookbinder's apprentice who discovered electromagnetic induction. source
• 10-07 Niels Bohr · Danish physicist whose quantum atom model won a Nobel. source
• 11-07 Marie Curie · Physicist-chemist who discovered polonium and radium. source
• 11-07 Lise Meitner · Physicist who explained nuclear fission's energy release. source
• 12-05 Werner Heisenberg · Physicist who formulated quantum uncertainty. source

+ 3 more day-precise entries in the corpus.

The year rail

Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.

• Aristotle -384