Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 29

April 29:

 * 1768 - Death of Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1694)


 * 1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia


 * 1793 - Death of John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)


 * 1798 - Death of Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)


 * 1854 - Birth of Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)


 * 1893 - Birth of Harold Urey, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)


 * 1916 - Death of Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)


 * 1966 - Death of William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)


 * 2008 - Death of Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)