Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 11

December 11:

 * 1761 - Birth of Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)


 * 1781 - Birth of Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)


 * 1843 - Birth of Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1910)


 * 1863 - Birth of Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941)


 * 1873 - Birth of Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)


 * 1882 - Birth of Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)


 * 1925 - Birth of Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, Nobel laureate


 * 1941 - Death of Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)


 * 1945 - Death of Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)


 * 1978 - Death of Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)


 * 1979 - Death of James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (b. 1904)