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The BBVA Foundation's award in the Humanities has gone to Cartwright, who has spent fifty years working on causality, evidence and objectivity. The citation praises her for building a bridge between philosophy and the actual practice of science.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has honoured the Princeton philosopher known for 'constructive empiricism' in the philosophy of science. The prize is 600,000 Swedish kronor.
On 18 August 1868, during a total solar eclipse in India, Pierre Janssen saw an unknown line in the sun's spectrum. An element that had never been found on earth had been discovered in the sky.
On 16 August 1858 Queen Victoria sent a message to President Buchanan along a cable laid beneath the ocean. It took seventeen hours to arrive — but for the first time communication had come loose from transport.
Darwin's loudest voice in Germany, the man who coined the word 'ecology' and turned monism into a world-view, Ernst Haeckel died at Jena on 9 August 1919.
