Births
1586 - Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist
1863 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist
1890 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist
1920 - George Porter, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist
1867 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Births
1573 - Simon Marius, German astronomer
1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist
1729 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist
1890 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist
1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1936 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and…
Births
1651 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician
1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician
1762 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist
1887 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1917 - Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate…
Events
1923 - Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.
Births
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (above)
1552 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician
1641 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician
1710 - William…
Births
1602 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist
1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist
1886 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1889 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer
1910 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist
1926 - Andrzej W. Schally, Polish-…