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April 16, 1728: Joseph Black is born
Joseph Black (1728-1799)
Scientific field: Chemistry, Physics
Known for: Discovery of carbon dioxide, Latent heat, Specific heat
Joseph Black was a British chemist and physicist best known for the rediscovery of “fixed air” (carbon dioxide), the concept of latent heat, and the discovery of the bicarbonates.
In his investigations of the heating of magnesia alba (magnesium carbonate), Black anticipated [...]
April 15, 1707: Leonhard Euler is born
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
Scientific field: Mathematics, Physics
Known for: Euler’s number
Swiss mathematician and physicist, Leonhard Euler was one of the founders of pure mathematics. He not only made decisive and formative contributions to the subjects of geometry, calculus, mechanics, and number theory but also developed methods for solving problems in observational astronomy and demonstrated useful applications of [...]
April 14, 1629: Christiaan Huygens is born
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
Scientific field: Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics
Known for: Pendulum clock, Huygens–Fresnel principle
Christiaan Huyghens was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, who founded the wave theory of light, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, and made original contributions to the science of dynamics - the study of the action of forces on bodies.
From [...]
April 9, 1770: Thomas Seebeck is born
Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770-1831)
Scientific field: Physics
Known for: Seebeck (thermoelectric) effect
Thomas Johann Seebeck was a German physicist who in 1821 discovered that an electric current flows between different conductive materials that are kept at different temperatures, known as the Seebeck effect.
Seebeck studied medicine at Berlin and at the University of Gottingen, where he acquired an M.D. [...]
March 27, 1845: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen is born
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923)
Scientific field: Physics
Known for: X-rays
Röntgen (also spelled Roentgen) was a German physicist, the recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901, for his discovery of X rays, which heralded the age of modern physics and revolutionized diagnostic medicine.
Röntgen studied at the Polytechnic in Zürich and then was professor of physics [...]
