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 |
8 | January | 1564 | Galileo Galilei | |
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 | |
23 | March | 1749 | Pierre-Simon Laplace | |
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 | |
17 | May | 1749 | Edward Jenner | |
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 |
24 | August | 1918 | Ray McIntire | Invented Styrofoam.[1] |
30 | August | 1871 | Ernest Rutherford | Physicist |
6 | September | 1766 | John Dalton | Proposed modern atomic theory |
22 | September | 1791 | Michael Faraday | |
25 | September | 1866 | Thomas Hunt Morgan | Established the chromosome theory of heredity. |
26 | September | 1754 | Joseph-Louis Proust | Found an important result leading to the modern science of chemistry. |
27 | September | 1925 | Sir Robert Edwards | Codeveloped in-vitro fertilization (IVF) of the human egg. |
29 | September | 1901 | Enrico Fermi | Prolifit physicist. |
5 | October | 1882 | Robert Goddard | Developed the 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. |
14 | December | 1546 | Tycho Brahe | |
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 |
27 | December | 1822 | Louis Pasteur | |
28 | December | 1903 | John von Neumann | Polymath |
29 | December | 1800 | Charles Goodyear | Developed the process for vulcanizing rubber. |