Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 27

April 27:

 * 1748 - Birth of Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (d. 1833)


 * 1755 - Birth of Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)


 * 1913 - Birth of Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)


 * 1927 - Birth of Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate


 * 1932 - Birth of Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)


 * 1936 - Death of Karl Pearson, English statistician (b. 1857)


 * 1967 - Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day


 * 1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse


 * 1992 - Death of Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (b. 1927)


 * 2002 - The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10