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April 21, 1774: Jean-Baptiste Biot is born
Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862)
Scientific field: Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics
Known for: Biot-Savart law
Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist who helped formulate the Biot-Savart law, which concerns magnetic fields, and laid the basis for saccharimetry, a useful technique of analyzing sugar solutions.
Educated at the École Polytechnique, Biot was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Beauvais in 1797, [...]
April 19, 1912: Glenn Seaborg is born
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999)
Scientific field: Chemistry
Known for: Transuranium elements
Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American nuclear chemist best known for his work on isolating and identifying elements heavier than uranium. He was awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (with Edwin Mattison McMillan). Element 106, seaborgium, was named in his honour.
With his coworkers, Seaborg added (1940–55) [...]
April 17, 1863: Augustus E. H. Love is born
Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863-1940)
Scientific field: Mathematics
Known for: Theory of elasticity
Augustus E. H. Love was a British geophysicist and mathematician who discovered a major type of seismic wave that was subsequently named for him.
Love held the Sedleian professorship of natural philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1899 to 1940. In his analysis of earthquake [...]
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 [...]
