Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 2

April 2:

 * 1527 - Birth of Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)


 * 1618 - Birth of Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)


 * 1742 - Death of James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)


 * 1747 - Death of Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684)


 * 1827 - Death of Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)


 * 1923 - Birth of G. Spencer-Brown, English mathematician


 * 1928 - Death of Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1868)


 * 1934 - Birth of Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007)


 * 1995 - Death of Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (b. 1908)