George Gaylord Simpson was one of the greatest and most influential paleontologists of all timees. He made crucial contributions to evolutionary theory and played a vital role in developing the understanding of intercontinental migrations of extinct mammals. George Gaylord Simpson was born in Chicago in 1902. He grew up in Denver and graduated from the […]

Georg Simon Ohm, more commonly known as Georg Ohm, was a German physicist, best known for his “Ohm’s Law”, which implies that the current flow through a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference (voltage) and inversely proportional to the resistance. The physical unit of electrical resistance, the Ohm, also was named after him.

Some names in the history of inventions can never be forgotten as they bless us with their numerous creative inventions that have now become a need of every man. Among such great personalities one name that is always remembered is that of Galileo Galilei. This renowned scientist was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa.

Fritz Haber was a German physical chemist. He was winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his successful work on nitrogen fixation. Fritz Haber is also well known for his supervision of the German poison gas programme during World War I. His name has been associated with the process of synthesizing ammonia. He

Friedrich Wöhler was a German Chemist who was born in 1800 in Eschersheim, Prussia. In 1820, he started his studies in the field of medicine at Marburg University but he was very soon transferred to another university, that is the University of Heidelberg. In 1923, his M.D. was received by him and then he started

Friedrich August Kekulé was a German scientist who came into this world on September 7, 1829. His birth place was Darmstadt, Germany. Initially, he used to study at the local gymnasium but later on he got admitted in the University of Giessen to study architecture as per his father’s desires. It was observed at school

Frederick Soddy (1877 – 1956) a polymath whose pioneering discoveries founded the fledgling science of nuclear chemistry, was also a prescient environmental economist, and contributed to solutions of long unanswered questions in mathematics. He first proved that the newly observed phenomenon of radioactivity arose from decay, or change, of certain unstable, or heavy, elements into

Frederick Sanger was an English biochemist who twice received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry; in 1958 for his discovery of the structure of the insulin molecule, and in 1980 for his collaborative work on base sequences in nucleic acids with Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert. He is widely considered to be the greatest and most

Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential anthropologists ever, Franz Boas was a German-American scientist, who is also known as the “Father of Modern Anthropology”. He was the first person to implement the scientific method into the study of human cultures and societies. Born in Minden, Westphalia, Franz Boas showed an

Sir Francis Galton was an English explorer, anthropologist, eugenicist, geographer and meteorologist. He is noted for his pioneering research on human intelligence and his statistical concept of correlation. He is often called the “father of eugenics”. Galton also invented many statistical tools such as surveys and questionnaires. Born in Sparkbrook, England, the maternal grandfather of

Highly regarded for his discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule with his colleague James D. Watson, Francis Crick was a scientific genius. He was a British molecular biologist, physicist and neuroscientist who jointly won a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Watson and Maurice Wilkins mainly for their discoveries concerning the molecular

Francis Bacon, a leading proponent of natural philosophy and scientific methodology, was an English lawyer, philosopher and scientist. Having written highly influential works on law, state and religion, politics and science, Bacon was an early pioneer of the scientific method who created “empiricism” and inspired the scientific revolution. Born on January 22, 1561 in Strand,

Francesco Redi was an Italian scientist, physician, academician and poet. He was the first person to prove that spontaneous generation did not cause the growth of maggots in decaying meat, but they appeared from eggs deposited by flies.Born in Arezzo, Central Italy in 1626, Francesco Redi received a Jesuit education. He acquired a degree in

Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian man, and a physicist by occupation, initially studied at Jesuit schools in Faenza, near Ravenna. He was so good as a Physicist and a Mathematician that he was sent to Rome for further studies under Benedetto Castelli’s direction. Torricelli was introduced to Galileo by Benedetto Castelli and there Torricelli spent his

The famous Greek scientist and mathematician Euclid (300 BC) is best known as the author of the Elements, the oldest book consisting of geometrical theorems which is considered to be a standard for logical exposition. Not much is known aobut Euclid personally. There have been speculations whether he was a creative mathematician himself or merely