Science Year

<<< Photo of Lord Kelvin courtesy of Glasgow University Library Special Collections (original photograph ref. MS Kelvin App. 1/4)

Science Year is a UK-wide educational initiative to promote science, technology, and engineering in 2002. So for June 2002, we're highlighting some of the many pioneering scientists and engineers whose records are described on the Hub. Rewind to the past - and fast forward to the future!

• John Logie Baird (1888-1946), pioneer of television
• Joseph Black (1728-1799), anatomist and chemist who developed the theory of latent heat
• William Herschel (1738-1822), musician and astronomer who discovered Uranus
• And his son John Herschel (1792-1871), astronomer and inventor of the blueprint
• Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), pioneer of modern nursing [letters concerning a typhoid epidemic in Bangor, Wales]

• Balfour Stewart Auroral Laboratory: network of astronomers and metereologists [1931-2001]
• Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904): scientific survey led by William Speirs Bruce (1867-1921)

• Association for Science Education and its constituent predecessors [1900 - circa 1970]
• British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1831-1972

Related links

• National Archive for the History of Computing
• National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists (NCUACS): cataloguing the papers of distinguished contemporary British scientists and engineers
• Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology and the Environment (NAHSTE): historical records of the Scottish scientific community

• Museum of the History of Science: collection of historic scientific instruments
• Science Museum: the history of science, industry, and medicine

• Association for Science Education
• British Association for the Advancement of Science

You can receive regular updates on our special features by joining our mailing list.