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Help me sort out my celebrations

Miss Chicken

Miss Chicken

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I had a great time celebrating the 10 Days of Newton (25 Dec-4 Jan) and I have decided that I want to have a birthday celebration each month so I won't feel so guilty about eating cake.

I want to celebrate a birthday of a famous scientist, inventor, writer, artist or a noted atheist. As the Newton celebrations include December and January those months are already covered.

So far I have

Feb - Charles Darwin (and Galileo)
March - Einstein
April - Leonardo Da Vinci
May - Bertrand Russell - will involve a teapot
June - Alan Turing
July - Nikola Tesla
August -
September -
October -
November - Marie Curie

Has anyone got suggestions for August, September and October. I want the person to be 1) real and 2)deceased

PS - I do celebrate Sherlock Holmes's birthday on January 6 (minus the cocaine).
 
My friends often laugh about how little I know about actors or musicians, and that is true even for actors and musicians who I like.

The only actor's birthday I know is Humphrey Bogart and that is because he was born on 25 December just like Newton. Bogie is included in my Newton Day celebrations (I look at The African Queen each 25 Dec each year).
 
But what about Sir Alexander Flemming for August or John Logie Baird would also work for August.

September you have Micheal Faraday

Novemeber William Herschel
 
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I know this is probably a softball but Neil deGrasse Tyson's birthday is in October.

ETA: Also for October, Jonas Salk the father of modern immunization. Especially with all the Anti-Vaxxers in the news lately.
 
I am not over keen on Fleming, I would rather celebrate Florey's or Chain's birthdays.

John Logie Baird is a good possibility, as is Faraday. AI will pencil them in for the moment.
 
August 5, 1930- Neil Armstrong. 1st to walk on the moon. Quote: One small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind.
Not dead, but still a big deal.
August 6, 1881- Sir Alexander Fleming, discovered penicillin
August 19, 1871- Orville Wright, aviator, "first in flight"
August 19, 1921- Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek
August 22, 1834- Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, aviation pioneer


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September 6, 1766- John Dalton, chemist, physicist, formulated atomic theory
September 7, 1908- Michael DeBakey, pioneer heart surgeon
September 10, 1898- Waldo Semon, chemist, invented vinyl
OMG! What would our world be without vinyl?
September 13, 1851- Walter Reed, army physician, bacteriologist, Walter Reed Hospital in D.C. named in his honor
September 29, 1901- Enrico Fermi, nuclear physicist


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October 5, 1882- Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of the Space Age
October 6, 1846- George Westinghouse, engineer, inventor, developed AC electric power
October 28, 1914- Jonas Salk, physician, developed polio vaccine

honorable mention, I did not know he was born in October...

October 20, 1882- Bela Lugosi, actor, played "Dracula"


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LordMudd said:
August 5, 1930- Neil Armstrong. 1st to walk on the moon. Quote: One small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind.
Not dead, but still a big deal.
August 6, 1881- Sir Alexander Fleming, discovered penicillin
August 19, 1871- Orville Wright, aviator, "first in flight"
August 19, 1921- Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek
August 22, 1834- Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, aviation pioneer


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Some good suggestions especially Neil Armstrong and I will have him for August. Did you miss the news when he died in 2012?

As far as aviators go I am a huge Alberto Santos Dumont fan, far more so than the Wright brothers.

And as I said above. I tend to give Florey the credit for penicillin rather than Fleming.
 
LordMudd said:
September 6, 1766- John Dalton, chemist, physicist, formulated atomic theory
September 7, 1908- Michael DeBakey, pioneer heart surgeon
September 10, 1898- Waldo Semon, chemist, invented vinyl
OMG! What would our world be without vinyl?
September 13, 1851- Walter Reed, army physician, bacteriologist, Walter Reed Hospital in D.C. named in his honor
September 29, 1901- Enrico Fermi, nuclear physicist


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LordMudd said:
October 5, 1882- Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of the Space Age
October 6, 1846- George Westinghouse, engineer, inventor, developed AC electric power
October 28, 1914- Jonas Salk, physician, developed polio vaccine

honorable mention, I did not know he was born in October...

October 20, 1882- Bela Lugosi, actor, played "Dracula"


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I did look at the possibility of Jonas Salk (October) , Albert Sabin (August) and Edward Jenner (May). I might choose to honour all three on Salk's birthday I.e. vaccination in general.

As I am having Tesla in July, I don't think I can include Westinghouse in October.

I will pencil Goddard and Fermi in for September.

Re: Help me sort out my celebrations
I know this is probably a softball but Neil deGrasse Tyson's birthday is in October.

ETA: Also for October, Jonas Salk the father of modern immunization. Especially with all the Anti-Vaxxers in the news lately.
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I like Neil DeGrasse Tyson but not as much (at least not as much yet) as Carl Sagan. I rejected Carl Sagan in November in favour of Marie Curie. On Curie Day I I will honour other women in science as well.
 
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Isaac Asimov offers some flexibility, due to inaccurate record-keeping and fudged ages to get him into school a year earlier. Wikipedia gives his birthday as between October 4, 1919 - January 2, 1920. In keeping with your science theme, Asimov had a doctorate in chemistry (although I suspect most here primarily recognize him for his SF stories).
 
August 07: Mata Hari's birthday. You can celebrate by dancing, having tea and yummy Dutch cheese sandwiches.

September 09: cardinal Richelieu's birthday. Suggested way of celebrating: demonstrate to your surroundings that, modest as you might be, it's still you who rules the state.

alternatively:
September 26: Ivan Pavlov's birthday. Celebrate by holding a piece of chocolate under everyone's noses and watch them drool.

October 09: John Lennon's birthday. Stay in bed all day and have some really good music.
 
Louis Leakey was born October 1, 1903. Even if you don't like his work in paleoanthropology, ya gotta love that he helped foster the work of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas, three of the most prominent primatologists in the discipline of anthropology. And it fills a social science vacancy on your list...
 
How about a few scientists that got neglected all their lives while others profited from their work and became famous:

September: Walther Müller. He co-developed the Geiger-Müller-counter but everyone keeps calling the gadget "Geiger-counter"

If you still have a vacancy in April or July I'd like to recommend a lady that suffers the same fate as Mr Müller: Rosalind Franklin. Watson & Crick got the Nobel Price for discovering the DNA's structure while it was actually she who found it. As at that time she was only the lab tech, her two bosses profited from her work and kept denying her involvement even though the lab protocols show who really made the discovery.

It's basically the same as it was with Mileva Maric, Einstein's first wife, an excellent physicist who gave up her own promising career to do all the mathematics for him because he was unable to do it himself. And after he got famous he promptly divorced her to marry his very rich cousin.
She'd qualify for August or December.
 
I plan to honour all women scientists in November on Marie Curie's birthday.

I did look at Rosalind Franklin before I opened this thread. Unfortunately her birthday was in July meaning she was up against Tesla and I am a great fan of Tesla.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt is another overlooked female scientist. Alas her birthday is also in July.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt
 
It is 12 February in Australia and we celebrated Darwin's birthday at morning tea. Little Galileo joined in because it is his birthday on the 15th.

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