Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 5

December 5:

 * 1624 - Death of Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)
 * 1770 - Death of James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)
 * 1863 - Birth of Paul Painlevé, French mathematician (d. 1933)
 * 1868 - Birth of Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951)
 * 1893 - First appearance of an electric car
 * 1895 - Birth of Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969)
 * 1896 - Birth of Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
 * 1901 - Birth of Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
 * 1903 - Birth of Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1969)
 * 1907 - Birth of Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
 * 1932 - German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa
 * 1932 - Birth of Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist, Nobel laureate
 * 1952 - Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow
 * 1973 - Death of Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, inventor of radar (b. 1892)
 * 2001 - Death of Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901)