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Birthdays of Scientists

trook


Posted 3/26/2007 3:07:37 AM

Here is a link to a site that lists Birthdays of Scientists


I thought it was fun to see what famous scientist was born on my birthday.
cfish


Posted 3/26/2007 8:06:31 PM 		Who was born on your birthday?

I will have to check mine out at home due to blockage here at work.
trook


Posted 3/26/2007 10:19:02 PM
According to the aforementioned link, I share the same date of birth with:

Thomas Midgley, Jr. (May 18, 1889 November 2, 1944), was an American mechanical engineer turned chemist. He developed both the tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and held over a hundred patents. While lauded at the time for his discoveries, today his legacy is seen as far more mixed considering the serious negative environmental impacts of these innovations. One historian remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in earth history." [1]

Quite an interesting character ... here is a link to his Wikepedia page: Thomas Midgley, Jr
cfish


Posted 3/27/2007 10:41:39 PM 		This fella has the same date of birth as I:

Michael Faraday, 1791

The English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday, 1791, is known for his pioneering experiments in electricity and magnetism. Many consider him the greatest experimentalist who ever lived. Several concepts that he derived directly from experiments, such as lines of magnetic force, have become common ideas in modern physics.
jillchavez


Posted 4/13/2007 2:57:23 AM 		According to the link, Samuel Colville Lind shares the same birthdate as I:

However this is somewhat debatable (June 15 or 17, 1879 - February 12, 1965). Nevertheless, he was most distinguished for his work on the kinetics of chemical reactions by ionizing radiation. He is particulalry remembered for his work with Max Boldenstein, in which their work was crucial to the evolution of the understanding of chain reactions.
nin1318


Posted 4/14/2007 4:10:47 AM 		i share my birthday with Lawrence E. Glendenin...who as far as i can tell only was part of the team to identify promethium (which of course could be a big deal but i don't know anything about it):

Promethium was first produced and proved to exist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 1945 by Jacob A. Marinsky, Lawrence E. Glendenin and Charles D. Coryell by separation and analysis of the fission products of uranium fuel irradiated in the Graphite Reactor; however, being too busy with defense-related research during World War II, they did not announce their discovery until 1947.[1] The name promethium is derived from Prometheus in Greek mythology, who stole the fire of the sky and gave it to mankind. The name was suggested by Grace Mary Coryell, Charles Coryell's wife, who felt that they were stealing fire from the gods.
bgerardo


Posted 7/30/2007 3:38:32 AM 		I Share my birthday (March 18) with the first Swedish and the first Nordic citizen in space. He is Arne Christer Fuglesang, (born March 18, 1957) is a Swedish scientist and a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut.

Fuglesang had worked at European Research Center on Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva on the UA5 experiment, which studied proton-antiproton collisions. In 1988 he became a Fellow of CERN, where he worked on the CPLEAR experiment studying the subtle CP-violation of kaon particles.
ramesh padodara


Posted 7/30/2008 12:56:49 AM 		I am sharing same date of birth with two great scientist
Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford), 1753 and
A. Crum Brown, 1838.

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: Reichsgraf von Rumford), FRS (26 March 1753 – 21 August 1814) was an Anglo-American physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.

Alexander Crum Brown FRS (26 March 1838 - 28 October 1922) was a Scottish organic chemist. He discovered the carbon double bond in ethylene, which was to have important implications for the modern plastics industry. He also made significant contributions to pharmacology, and worked in the fields of physiology, phonetics, mathematics and crystallography
ohm_ampere123


Posted 4/30/2011 9:57:30 AM 		According to the link I share the same day of birth as Johann Wilhelm Ritter who knew that silver chloride(Ag Cl) decomposed in light, and then realized that the process was most efficient in the presence of'invisible' radiation(ultraviolet radiation)
Amtekoth


Posted 4/30/2011 11:00:17 AM 		I have been to the birthday site a few times but only now realized that the wallpaper background is of an atomic explosion.

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