Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 11

December 11:

• 1761 - Birth of Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)

• 1781 - Birth of Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)

• 1843 - Birth of Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1910)

• 1863 - Birth of Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)

• 1873 - Birth of Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)

• 1882 - Birth of Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)

• 1925 - Birth of Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, Nobel laureate

• 1941 - Death of Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)

• 1945 - Death of Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)

• 1978 - Death of Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)

• 1979 - Death of James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (b. 1904)