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.

Who was born on your birthday?

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

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

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.

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.

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):