David Alan Leigh is the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He works in the field of supramolecular and organic chemistry.
Scientist Of The Day
Scientists, engineers or mathematicians born on this day
Friday
Saturday
Gregor Mendel: 20th July
Gregor Mendel (Born 1822) was an Austrian-Czech biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno, Moravia. He was the first person to lay the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics, in what came to be called Mendelism.
Friday
Thursday
Robert Hooke: 18th July
Robert Hooke FRS (born1635 – )[4][a] was an English polymath; physicist, astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect.
Wednesday
Eunice Newton Foote: 17th July
Eunice Newton Foote (Born 1819) was an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner.
Tuesday
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz: 16th July
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (born 1903-1974) was German born and internationally renowned for her many important contributions to aerodynamics and to automatic control theory.
Monday
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: 15th July
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.