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William Yarrell – Scientist of the Day
William Yarrell, an English naturalist, was born June 3, 1784.
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Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola – Scientist of the Day
Don Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, a Spanish jurist and amateur archaeologist, died June 2, 1888, at the age of about 57.
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James Gillray – Scientist of the Day
James Gillray, a British caricaturist and etcher, died June 1, 1815, at age 58.
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Chien-Shiung Wu – Scientist of the Day
Chien-Shiung Wu, a Chinese-American experimental physicist, was born May 31, 1912, in Jiangsu province, China.
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Charles Willson Peale – Scientist of the Day
Charles Willson Peale was an early American portrait painter, founder of the first natural history museum in the country, and the man who unearthed and mounted the first mastodon skeleton in the world, which he exhibited in his museum.
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John Mayow – Scientist of the Day
John Mayow, an English chemist, physician, and physiologist, was born in 1642 in Cornwall.
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The Falkirk Wheel – Scientist of the Day
The Falkirk Wheel, a boat lift in central Scotland, opened May 24, 2002.
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Otto Lilienthal – Scientist of the Day
Otto Lilienthal, a German engineer, was born May 23, 1848.
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Pietro Bembo – Scientist of the Day
Pietro Bembo, an Italian writer and cleric of the late Renaissance, was born May 20, 1470.
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Robert Dietz – Scientist of the Day
Robert Sinclair Dietz, an American marine geologist, died May 19, 1995, at the age of 80.
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Alphonse de Neuville – Scientist of the Day
Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, a French painter and illustrator, died May 18, 1885, at the age of 50.
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Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond – Scientist of the Day
Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond, a French geologist, paleontologist, and scientific traveler, was born May 17, 1741.
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Ebenezer Emmons – Scientist of the Day
Ebenezer Emmons, an American geologist, was born May 16, 1799, in Middlefield, Mass.
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William Henry Fitton – Scientist of the Day
William Henry Fitton, an Irish/English geologist, died May 13, 1861, at the age of 71.
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Edmé Mariotte – Scientist of the Day
Edmé Mariotte, a French physicist, died May 12, 1684; we have no idea when or where he was born, or how old he was at his death.
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Edward Kemeys – Scientist of the Day
Edward Kemeys, an American animal sculptor, died May 11, 1907.
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Albert C. Koch – Scientist of the Daay
Albert C. Koch, a German/American naturalist, showman, and entrepreneur, was born May 10, 1804, near Leipzig, Germany.
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Hewett Cottrell Watson – Scientist of the Dy
Hewett Cottrell Watson, an English botanist, was born May 9, 1804.
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Everard Home – Scientist of the Day
Everard Home, a British anatomist and surgeon, was born May 6, 1756.
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Johannes de Sacrobosco – Scientist of the Day
Johannes de Sacrobosco, an English cleric, astronomer, and teacher, lived in the first half of the 13th century; he was born before 1200 C.E., and died between 1236 and 1256 C.E.
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