Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 22

July 22:

• 1711 - Birth of Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)

• 1755 - Birth of Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)

• 1784 - Birth of Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)

• 1802 - Death of Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (b. 1771)

• 1826 - Death of Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)

• 1887 - Birth of Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)

• 1888 - Birth of Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)

• 1888 - Birth of Selman Waksman, Ukrainian/American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)

• 1922 - Death of Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)