STEM 365
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This will be a list of 365 men that have made outstanding contributions in a STEM field. All birth dates listed are in the Gregorian Calendar even if this calendar was not in use at the time of their birth. In some cases birth dates may be approximate.
Day | Month | Year | Name | Notes |
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4 | January | 1643 | Sir Isaac Newton | Physicist, Mathematician |
15 | January | 1908 | Edward Teller | |
17 | January | 1706 | Benjamin Franklin | Polymath |
8 | February | 1834 | Dmitri Mendeleev | Chemist and Inventor |
12 | February | 1809 | Charles Darwin | Established the idea of evolution through natural selection |
19 | February | 1943 | Nicolaus Copernicus | |
27 | February | 1899 | Charles Best | Co-discoverer of insulin. |
28 | February | 1901 | Linus Pauling | Chemist, Biochemist, Chemical Engineer |
3 | March | 1847 | Alexander Graham Bell | Prolific inventor |
4 | March | 1847 | Carl Josef Bayer | Developed the process to cheaply extract Aluminium from Bauxite. |
11 | March | 1926 | Thomas Starzl | Pioneered organ transplantation. |
14 | March | 1879 | Albert Einstein | Mathematician |
18 | March | 1858 | Rudolf Diesel | Inventor, Mechanical Engineer |
23 | March | 1913 | Paul Erdős | Mathematician |
9 | April | 1806 | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Prolific engineer & inventor |
15 | April | 1452 | Leonardo da Vinci | Polymath |
21 | April | 1909 | Józef Kosacki | Invented the first portable mine detector |
22 | April | 1904 | Paul Davies | Physicist |
23 | April | 1858 | Max Planck | Founder of quantum theory. |
11 | May | 1918 | Richard Feynman | Physicist |
15 | May | 1859 | Pierre Curie | |
23 | May | 1707 | Carl Linnaeus | Ecologist |
1 | June | 1907 | Frank Whittle | Invented the Turbojet engine |
8 | June | 1916 | Tim Berners-Lee | Developed the World Wide Web |
9 | June | 1781 | George Stephenson | Engineer, inventor and pioneer of rail transportation |
13 | June | 1928 | John Nash | Fundamental contributor to game theory |
19 | June | 1623 | Blaise Pascal | Developed probability theory in mathematics |
23 | June | 1912 | Alan Turing | Computer Scientist, Mathematician |
1 | July | 1818 | Ignaz Semmelweis | Physician and Scientist |
10 | July | 1856 | Nikola Tesla | Prolific inventor |
20 | July | 1822 | Gregor Mendel | Founder of the science of Genetics |
6 | August | 1881 | Alexander Flemming | Discovered penicillin |
23 | August | 1769 | Georges Cuvier | Founder of Paleontology |
30 | August | 1871 | Ernest Rutherford | Physicist |
6 | September | 1766 | John Dalton | Proposed modern atomic theory |
22 | September | 1791 | Michael Faraday | |
29 | September | 1901 | Enrico Fermi | Physicist |
5 | October | 1882 | Robert Goddard | Developed first liquid fuel rocket. |
7 | October | 1885 | Niels Bohr | Physicist |
16 | October | 1803 | Robert Stephenson | Engineer, inventor and pioneer of rail transportation. |
1 | November | 1880 | Alfred Wegener | Originator of the theory of continental drift. |
14 | November | 1891 | Frederick Banting | Co-discoverer of insulin. |
20 | November | 1889 | Edwin Hubble | Responsible for major advances in astronomy and cosmology. |
15 | December | 1852 | Henri Becquerel | |
21 | December | 1803 | Joseph Whitworth | Engineer, Inventor. |
22 | December | 1887 | Srinivasa Ramanujan | Mathematician. |
26 | December | 1791 | Charles Babbage | Father of the computer |
28 | December | 1903 | John von Neumann | Polymath |
29 | December | 1800 | Charles Goodyear | Developed the process to vulcanize rubber. |