Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 25

December 25:

 * 1642 - Birth of Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1727)


 * 1763 - Birth of Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (d. 1805)


 * 1765 - Death of Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)


 * 1868 - Death of Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (b. 1821)


 * 1876 - Birth of Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Nobel laureate (d. 1959)


 * 1904 - Birth of Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)


 * 1906 - Birth of Ernst Ruska, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)


 * 1993 - Death of Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)