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Clifford Glenwood Shull (1915 - 2001)
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Clifford Glenwood Shull (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1915 - March 31, 2001) was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. Read more
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Mary Mallon (1869 - 1938)
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Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 - November 11, 1938), better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. Read more
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William Cameron "Willie" McCool (1961 - 2003)
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William Cameron "Willie" McCool (September 23, 1961 - February 1, 2003) was a United States Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107. He was killed, along with all others, when their spacecraft disintegrated during re-entry into the Ear...
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Michael Faraday, FRS (1791 - 1867)
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Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 - 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Read more
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Euripides (ca. 480 BC - 406 BC)
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Euripides (ca. 480 BC - 406 BC) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most. Read more
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Sir Bernard Lovell
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Jodrell Bank's creator Sir Bernard Lovell: he knew the future was out of this world Last week, the world celebrated the accomplishments of Yuri Gagarin who, 50 years ago, became the first human to fly into space. Yet it is also an appropriate time to pay tribute to one of Britain's own heroes of the spac...
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David Robert Tytler
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Astrophysicist inspiring pupils to reach for stars A former pupil of Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen, who is now a leading astrophysicist in America, was celebrating his roots yesterday as he led the school's annual Founder's Day Oration. [url=http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article...
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Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)
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Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) was an Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence, and known for his prophecies of civic glory and calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule and the exploitation of the poor. Read more
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John McAdam (1756 - 1836)
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John Loudon McAdam (21 September 1756 - 26 November 1836) was a Scottish engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based tracks. Read more
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John Gofman (1918 - 2007)
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John William Gofman (September 21, 1918 - August 15, 2007) was an American scientist and advocate. He was Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California at Berkeley. Some of his early work was on the Manhattan Project, and he shares patents on the fissionability of ura...
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Richard James Hieb
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Richard James Hieb (born September 21, 1955 in Jamestown, North Dakota) is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65. He is currently a the Vice-President of Lockheed Martin Civil Pro...
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Max Immelmann (1890 - 1916)
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Max Immelmann (21 September 1890 - 18 June 1916) was the first German World War I flying ace. He was a great pioneer in fighter aviation and is often mistakenly credited with the first aerial victory using a synchronised gun. His name has become attached to common flying tactics, and remains a byword i...
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Phyllis Nicolson (1917 - 1968)
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Phyllis Nicolson (21 September 1917 - 6 October 1968) was a British mathematician most known for her work on the Crank-Nicolson scheme together with John Crank. Read more
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Robert Wharton
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SDSMT President Robert Wharton Dies South Dakota School of Mines and Technology President Robert Wharton has passed away. The school made the announcement Wednesday morning after the Executive Council learned of his death. No cause of death was given. [url=http://www.keloland.com/News/new...
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Keith Roberts (1935 - 2000)
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Keith John Kingston Roberts (20 September 1935 - 5 October 2000), was an English science fiction author. He began publishing with two stories in the September 1964 issue of Science Fantasy magazine, "Anita" (the first of a series of stories featuring a teenage modern witch and her eccen...
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