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One cannot fathom current-day mathematics without the unique contribution of Muhammad al-Khwarizmi in the ninth century AD
The 200th birthday of Gregor Mendel, who revealed the basic laws that govern how traits are passed down through generations
The 400th anniversary of the invention of the slide rule
Science, art, imagination and plenty of humor accompanied Douglas Adams’ far-too-short life.
It is 521 years since the second voyage of Amerigo Vespucci, from whose name “America” derives
Leonardo da Vinci – painter, engineer, inventor, scientist and one of the most prolific minds in history
Marking 30 years since the death of Isaac Asimov, one of the most prolific and popular science fiction writers in history
Mary Leakey, who had no formal education, led many excavations in Africa and was pivotal in deciphering how our ancestors evolved.
The 124th anniversary of the death of Lewis Carroll, author of “Alice in Wonderland” and a brilliant creator of logic puzzles
Martin Gardner, the greatest puzzle-master, who conveyed the beauty of mathematics better than anyone
125 years to the death of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the world’s most prestigious prize
Benjamin Franklin, born in 1706, was an exceptional innovator in both science and social developments
The disease that killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century alone and apparently destroyed whole civilizations in the new world.
Over 150 years from Marie Curie’s birth, the radioactivity pioneer is still the only person to ever win two Nobel Prizes for different scientific fields
Yoseph Imry, a mesoscopic physics pioneer, has passed away
Marking 31 years since the death of Primo Levi, an Auschwitz survivor who became one of the most prominent Holocaust writers
We take pride in being “the startup nation”. It all began with the WEIZAC computer at the Weizmann Institute of Science
147 years to the inauguration of the Suez Canal, probably the largest and most important engineering project of the 19th century
134 years since the birth of Robert Goddard, the father of rocket science, who was never really taken seriously
The scientific discovery that generated a great achievement for the Zionist movement
145th birthday of Ernest Rutherford, the discoverer of the atomic structure who opened the era of nuclear research
273rd birthday of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the Renaissance man who institutionalized chemistry as a scientific discipline
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