Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 10

April 10:

 * 1651 - Birth of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)


 * 1710 - The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain


 * 1762 - Birth of Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)


 * 1813 - Death of Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (b. 1736)


 * 1917 - Birth of Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)


 * 1920 - Death of Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1829)


 * 1927 - Birth of Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate


 * 1955 - Death of Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)