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Eugène Delacroix, a French artist, was born in 1798. Delacroix is known as one of the most important figures of French Romanticism. Learn more about Delacroix in his profile: https://t.co/4RVe1NYi5Q

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2021-04-27

"The boundaries between science and art often overlap, to the benefit of both..." -

Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic artist with a passion for is 's

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2021-04-26

Louis Thomas Jerôme Auzoux, French anatomist who became famous for manufacturing papier-mâché anatomical models, is 's

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2021-04-07

Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and author of The New American Practical Navigator (which remains in print over 200 yrs later!), is 's

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2021-03-26

François-Marie Daudin, a French zoologist & author of an 8-volume natural history of is 's

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2021-03-25

You'll really get a charge out of these electrostatic generators!

They were built by Johann Heinrich Winkler, German electrical experimenter and 's

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2021-03-12

Ashton Lever (an English natural history collector) *and* Sarah Stone (an English watercolor artist & illustrator) are 's Scientists of the Day!

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2021-03-05

George Ehret, German botanical artist whose painting of a tri-petal magnolia (seen here) appears in Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, was born in 1708.

Learn more in 's profile: https://t.co/ljQQjxerzR

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2021-01-31

Auguste Piccard, a Swiss physicist, balloonist, and the inspiration for one of fiction's most famous absent-minded professors (#Tintin's Prof. Tournesol/Calculus), is 's

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2021-01-28

Max von Laue, German physicist who received the 1914 in for his research into X-ray crystallography, is our

(Contrary to this clerihew, we can not confirm that he ever owned a Chihuahua...)

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2020-10-09

M.C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist and creator of mathematically inspired illustrations, is our

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2020-06-17