These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...

A Lancaster aircraft is set to fly over Milton Keynes next month as part of events to honour a man who designed what has been ...

Robert Koffler Jarvik was born on May 11, 1946, in Midland, Mich., and grew up in Stamford, Conn. His father, Norman, was a physician with a family practice.

Admission to the Robert Hooke Museum is free; however, donations are strongly encouraged to support its ongoing operations. Only a limited number of seats will be available on the coach and these will ...

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction of a flea as seen through his microscope, made scary through magnification: almost all body and little head, a giant apparatus for storing ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Robert Hooke (1635-1703) who worked for Robert Boyle and was curator of experiments at the Royal Society. The engraving of a flea, above, is ...

News Published: 18 January 1936 Robert Hooke as Geologist and Evolutionist W. N. Edwards Nature 137, 96–97 (1936) Cite this article ...

The answer lies in a fundamental principle of physics known as Hooke’s Law. This elegant yet powerful concept, formulated by 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke, describes the relationship between the ...

A REPRESENTATIVE Oxford gathering met in the Divinity School on November 20 to do honour to the memory of Robert Hooke of Christ Church, who was born three hundred years ago. Dr. R. T. Gunther ...

IN his account of the extraordinarily intriguing, human and intimate part of the ” Diary of Robert Hooke”, published in NATURE of September 7, Prof. Andrade has suggested that the biographer ...

Letter Published: 01 October 1935 Robert Hooke and his Contemporaries Nature 136, 603–604 (1935) Cite this article ...