Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 22

December 22:

 * 1660 - Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)


 * 1765 - Birth of Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)


 * 1805 - Birth of John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)


 * 1819 - Birth of Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892)


 * 1828 - Death of William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766)


 * 1853 - Birth of Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919)


 * 1867 - Death of Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (b. 1788)


 * 1869 - Birth of Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)


 * 1872 - Birth of Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)


 * 1887 - Birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)


 * 1898 - Birth of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)


 * 1903 - Birth of Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)