February Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same February birthday as you. The second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
February 1
- 1905 - Italian physicist, Emilio Segre, won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for the atomic bomb used on Nagasaki
- 1928 - Physicist, Sam Edwards
February 2
- 1817 - English chemist, John Glover discovered sulfuric acid
- 1859 - American physician & sexologist, Havelock Ellis wrote the Psychology of Sex
- 1905 - Jean-Pierre Guerlain invented cosmetics pioneer
February 3
- 1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell of Bristol England was the first accredited woman physician
February 4
- 1841 - French inventor, Clement Ader was the first to fly a heavier-than-air craft
- 1875 - German physicist, Ludwig Prandtl was considered the father of aerodynamics
- 1903 - Mathematician, Alexander Oppenheim
February 5
- 1840 - Scottish inventor, John Boyd Dunlop invented pneumatic rubber tires
- 1840 - Hiram Maxim invented the automatic single-barrel rifle
- 1914 - British physicist, Alan Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in 1963
- 1915 - American atomic physicist, Robert Hofstadter
- 1943 - Inventor Nolan Bushnell, was the founder of Atari and the creator of Pong
February 6
- 1879 - German research physicist, Carl Ramsauer discovered the Ra-msauer-Townsend effect
- 1890 - Anton Hermann Fokker was an avation pioneer
- 1907 - Sam Green was a noted industrialist and inventor
- 1913 - British scientist, Mary Leakey
February 7
- 1870 - Austrian psychiatrist, Alfred Adler discovered Inferiority Complex
- 1905 - Swedish physiologist, Ulf Svante von Euler won the Nobel Prize in 1970
February 8
- 1828 - French writer, Jules Verne is considered the father of sci-fi, and wrote From the Earth to the Moon
- 1922 - Joeri Averbach was a noted Russian chess grandmaster
February 9
- 1871 - American pathologist, Howard T Ricketts studied typhus fever
- 1910 - French biochemist, Jacques Monod
- 1923 - Norman E. Shumway was a pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
- 1943 - Joseph E. Stiglitz was a noted American economist
- 1950 - Andrew N Meltzoff was a noted developmental psychologist
February 10
- 1880 - Engineer, Jesse G Vincent designed the first V-12 engine
- 1896 - British scientist, Alister Hardy
- 1897 - Microbiologist, John Franklin Ender won the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his research into polio.
- 1920 - English physician and writer, Alex Comfort wrote "The Joy of Sex"
- 1941 - Dave Parnas was a noted American scientist
