Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 23

December 23:

 * 1722 - Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)


 * 1732 - Birth of Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)


 * 1805 - Death of Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)


 * 1822 - Birth of Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875)


 * 1846 - Death of Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)


 * 1854 - Birth of Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (d. 1926)


 * 1911 - Birth of Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)


 * 1912 - Death of Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)


 * 1931 - Death of Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)


 * 1943 - Birth of Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician


 * 1954 - The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts