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Johann Kies (1713 - 1781)
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Johann Kies (September 14, 1713 - July 29, 1781) was a German astronomer and mathematician. Born in Tübingen, Kies worked in Berlin in 1751 alongside Jérôme Lalande in order to make observations on the lunar parallax in concert with those of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille at the Cape of Good Hope. Read mor...
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Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev (1837 - 1903)
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Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev (September 14, 1837 - June 11, 1903) was a prominent Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely. Bugaev was the active member of the Moscow Mathematical Society and the president of it (1891-1903). He also wrote influential philosophical essays in which he trump...
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Frank Templeton Prince (1912 – 2003)
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University archive of influential poet's work unsealed 100 years after his birth An archive of letters, notebooks and journals sealed after the death of influential poet and University of Southampton English Professor F.T. Prince has been opened for the first time. Frank Templeton Prince knew c...
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Sid Watkins (1928 – 2012)
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Professor Sid Watkins, who was at the forefront of Formula 1 safety for more than 30 years, has died aged 84. The neurosurgeon, who was a close friend of the late three-time champion Ayrton Senna, served as the sport's medical delegate from 1978 until 2004. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/mot...
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Dimitri Nanopoulos
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Dimitri Nanopoulos (born 13 September 1948 in Athens) is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 35,800 times over across a number of separate branches of science. Read more
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Amelie Beese (1886 - 1925)
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Amelie Hedwig Boutard-Beese (13 September 1886 - 22 December 1925), also known as Melli Beese was an early German female aviator born in Laubegast, on the outskirts of Dresden, Saxony. Read more
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Irène Joliot-Curie (1897 - 1956)
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Irène Joliot-Curie (12 September 1897 - 17 March 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Skodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial...
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Richard David Gill
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Richard David Gill (born 11 September 1951) is a mathematician born in the United Kingdom who has lived in the Netherlands since 1974. As a probability theorist and statistician, Gill is known for his research on counting processes and survival analysis, some of which has appeared in an advanced te...
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Paul Andrew
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Amazing sun photos taken by Kent amateur astronomer When they were first seen it was thought they'd been taken by NASA - in fact they were recorded by a Kent astronomer in his back garden. They show the sun as very few have ever seen it before. Iain McBride speaks to astronomer and photographer Paul Andr...
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Robert Laurel Crippen
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Robert Laurel Crippen (born September 11, 1937 in Beaumont, Texas) is an engineer, retired United States Navy Captain and a former NASA astronaut. He flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including three as commander. Read more
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Gherman Stepanovich Titov (1935 - 2000)
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Gherman Stepanovich Titov (September 11, 1935 - September 20, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on August 6, 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. Read more
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James Hopwood Jeans (1877 - 1946)
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Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS MA DSc ScD LLD (11 September 1877 - 16 September 1946) was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician. Read more
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Danny Glavin
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Curious about Life: Interview with Danny Glavin The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterise the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ever had the potential for life. The Sample Analysis...
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Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov (1933 - 2000)
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Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov (September 10, 1933 - May 19, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5/Soyuz 4 mission. Read more
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Mike Mullane
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Richard Michael "Mike" Mullane (born September 10, 1945) is a retired USAF officer and a former NASA astronaut, flying on three Space Shuttle missions. Read more
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