April 2020 has arrived and with it come lots of opportunities to Do Some Science! In addition to being Global Astronomy Month and Citizen Science Month, April is also home to National Robotics Week, the Lyrids Meteor Shower, and Earth Day. Take a look at what April 2020 brings for the science lover in you.
April 2: Astronomer and educator, Eleanor Margaret Burbridge, was born on this day in 1948. She was also the first woman to be appointed to the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
April 2-5: National Science Teachers Association National Conference (postponed)
April 3: Birthday of the primatologist and anthropologist, Jane Goodall’s
April 4-12: National Robotics Week
April 5: National Dandelion Day
April 5: Birthday of Joseph Lister; British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery
April 6: Chemist James D. Watson was born on this day in 1928. He is credited with the co-discovery of DNA.
April 7: World Health Day
April 7: International Beaver Day
April 8: Full Pink Moon (also known as Full Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, or Fish Moon). The third of four supermoons for the year.
April 12: Yuri’s Night
April 12: Anniversary of NASA’s first Space Shuttle flight
April 13: International Plant Appreciation Day
April 14: Look Up at the Sky Day
April 14: National Dolphin Day
April 15: Birthday of Leonardo Da Vinci
April 16: Birthday of Wilbur Wright; aviation pioneer credited with inventing and flying the world’s first successful airplane
April 16: Mushroom Day
April 17: Bat Appreciation Day
April 19-April 26: International Dark Sky Week
April 20-24: National Environmental Education (EE) Week
April 22: Earth Day (US)
April 22-23: Lyrids Meteor Shower
April 23: World Laboratory Day
April 23: Birthday of Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck; the founder of quantum theory of physics
April 24: Arbor Day
April 24-26: USA Engineering & Science Festival (postponed)
April 25: National DNA Day
April 25: Hubble Telescope lunched into orbit in 1990
April 25: World Penguin Day
April 26: National Richter Scale Day
April 27: Morse Code Day
April 28: International Astronomy Day
April 29-May 1: Nobel Prize Summit
