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Jean-Henri Fabre – The Virgil of Insects
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) On December 22, 1821, French entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre was born. Being a prolific author, his greatest achievement lies in the polularization of insect natural history....
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Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville and the Chemistry of Putrefaction
Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville (1720 – 1805) On December 23, 1805, Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d’Arconville, née d’Arlus, passed away, who was referred to as Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville. She...
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James Prescott Joule and the True Nature of Heat
James Prescott Joule (1818 – 1889) On December 24, 1818, English physicist and brewer, James Prescott Joule was born. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical...
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Clara Barton and the Start of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton (1821 – 1912) photographed by James E. Purdy On December 25, 1821, American pioneering nurse Clarissa “Clara” Harlowe Barton was born. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a...
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Frederick II – The “Wonder of the World”
Frederick II (1194 – 1250) On December 26, 1194, Frederick II, one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen was born. Speaking six languages...
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The second Voyage of the HMS Beagle
HMS Beagle in the seaways of Tierra del Fuego, painting by Conrad Martens On December 27, 1831, the HMS. Beagle set sail from Plymouth Sound under captain Robert FitzRoy [4] with the young graduate...
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Maarten Schmidt and the Phenomenon of Quasars
Artist’s rendering of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun On December 28, 1929, Dutch astronomer Maarten Schmidt was born....
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The Case of Klaus Fuchs, Atomic Spy
Police photograph of Physicist Klaus Fuchs (1911-1988) On December 29, 1911, German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs was born. In the time of the development of...
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Samuel Morland and his Calculator Machine
Samuel Morland (1625-1695) On December 30, 1695, English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician Samuel Morland passed away. Morland was a polymath credited with early developments in...
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Andreas Vesalius and the Science of Anatomy
Portrait of Vesalius (1514-1564) from his De humani corporis fabrica, 1543 On December 31, 1514, Brabantian (in modern-day Belgium) anatomist, physician Andreas Vesalius was born. Vesalius is often...
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