Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 14

December 14:

 * 1503 - Birth of Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)


 * 1546 - Birth of Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (d. 1601)


 * 1782 - The Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifts on its first test flight


 * 1865 - Death of Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)


 * 1873 - Death of Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)


 * 1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law


 * 1903 - The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina


 * 1909 - Birth of Edward Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)


 * 1922 - Birth of Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001)


 * 1927 - Death of Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)


 * 1989 - Death of Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1921)