Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 26

December 26:

 * 1624 - Death of Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)


 * 1780 - Birth of Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)


 * 1791 - Birth of Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871)


 * 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium


 * 1933 - FM radio is patented


 * 1937 - Birth of John Horton Conway, British mathematician