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Famous Birth Today in History
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Date of Birth
01 Aug, 1744
Date of Death
18 Dec, 1829
Age at time of Death
85 years
Cause of Death
Age-related complications
Nationality
French
Gender
Male
Jean Baptiste Lamarck's Quote's
Did You Know?
He believed internal forces drove evolution: Unlike Darwin's focus on external selection pressures, Lamarck proposed internal drives pushed organisms towards complexity.
He coined the term "invertebrate": Prior to Lamarck, invertebrate animals lacked a unifying designation.
He opposed spontaneous generation: While some believed life spontaneously arose from non-living matter, Lamarck argued for continuous descent from earlier life forms.
His theory influenced artists and thinkers: Lamarck's ideas resonated with writers like Mary Shelley and artists like Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, inspiring creative explorations of evolution.
Famous Death Today in History
Philip Abelson
Date of Birth
27 Apr, 1913
Date of Death
01 Aug, 2004
Age at time of Death
91 years
Cause of Death
Respiratory failure
Nationality
American
Gender
Male
Philip Abelson's Quote's
Did You Know?
Abelson co-discovered the element neptunium in 1940, working with Edwin McMillan at the University of California, Berkeley
Abelson wrote a report in 1946 that provided a blueprint for the Navy's first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, launched in 1955
He developed the liquid thermal diffusion process for separating uranium isotopes, which was crucial for the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb
He played a major role in the discovery of the element neptunium.
In 1933 Abelson received his bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Washington State University.
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