Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 16

December 16:

 * 1687 - Death of William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)


 * 1776 - Birth of Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810)


 * 1804 - Birth of Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1889)


 * 1809 - Death of Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)


 * 1882 - Birth of Walther Meissner, German physicist (d. 1974)


 * 1905 - Birth of Piet Hein, Danish mathematician and inventor (d. 1996)


 * 1980 - Death of Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)