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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
1 January 1894 Satyendra Nath Bose Physicist. Collaborated with Albert Einstein to establish Bose-Einstein statistics, which is fundamental to modern physics.[1]
2 January 1941 Donald B. Keck Invented optical fiber.[2]
3 January 1906 William Wilson Morgan Established that the Milky Way galaxy has spiral arms and co-developed stellar luminosity classes.[3]
4 January 1643 Sir Isaac Newton Polymath.[4]
5 January 1909 Stephen Cole Kleene Mathematician. His work underpins theoretical computer science.[5]
6 January 1906 Jacques Étienne Montgolfier Co-developed the hot-air balloon with his brother Jacques Étienne Montgolfier.[6]
7 January 1871 Émile Borel Mathematician. Made important contributions to probability theory and was an early researcher in game theory.[7]
8 January 1564 Galileo Galilei
15 January 1785 William Prout Various discoveries. Advanced understanding of atomic physics. His work influenced the naming of the proton by Ernest Rutherford.[8]
16 January
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
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 1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Polymath.
2 July 1906 Hans Albrecht Bethe Physicist. Conducted seminal work on quantum mechanics.[9]
3 July 1935 Harrison “Jack” Schmitt Scientist-Astronaut. Spent three days on the Lunar surface as part of the Apollo 17 mission.[10]
4 July 1883 Rube Goldberg Engineer & cartoonist. Satirised modern society's preoccupation with technology. Established the concept of the Rube Goldberg machine.[11]
10 July 1856 Nikola Tesla Prolific inventor.
12 July 1895 Buckminster Fuller 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.[12]
26 August 1906 Albert Bruce Sabin Developed the first oral polio vaccine.[13]
30 August 1871 Ernest Rutherford Physicist. Established the existence of the atomic nucleus.
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.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.todayinsci.com/1/1_01.htm
  2. ↑ https://www.todayinsci.com/1/1_02.htm
  3. ↑ https://www.todayinsci.com/1/1_03.htm
  4. ↑ https://www.todayinsci.com/1/1_04.htm
  5. ↑ https://www.todayinsci.com/1/1_05.htm
  6. ↑ https://www.todayinsci.com/1/1_06.htm
  7. ↑ https://www.todayinsci.com/1/1_07.htm
  8. ↑ https://todayinsci.com/1/1_15.htm
  9. ↑ https://todayinsci.com/7/7_02.htm
  10. ↑ https://todayinsci.com/7/7_03.htm
  11. ↑ https://todayinsci.com/7/7_04.htm
  12. ↑ https://todayinsci.com/8/8_24.htm
  13. ↑ https://todayinsci.com/8/8_26.htm
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