Happy holidays to everyone! Today is the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton who was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his own day as a “natural philosopher“).He is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. Read the Wikipedia article.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science fiction writer, an avid populariser of space travel, and a futurist of a distinguished…
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Gerard Peter Kuiper was a Dutch astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. He is the eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt. Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science. Read the Wikipedia article.
Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer which played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. Read the Wikipedia article.
Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. Read the full Wikipedia article
Enrico Fermi is considered, after Galileo Galilei, the greatest Italian physicist of all time. In his honor was given the name of an element of the periodic table, the fermium (symbol Fm), a submultiple of the meter commonly used in atomic and nuclear physics, the fermi, and one of the two classes of particles of…
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Happy birthday Foucault! Today is the birth anniversary of the famous French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault who demonstrated the rotation of the Earth through the movement of a pendulum. This experiment will be named “Foucault’s pendulum” in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia.
