Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 13

February 13:

 * 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition
 * 1672 - Birth of Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
 * 1743 - Birth of Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist (d. 1820)
 * 1787 - Death of Ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
 * 1805 - Birth of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859)
 * 1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect
 * 1910 - Birth of William Shockley, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1989)
 * 1956 - Death of Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1878)
 * 1960 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb
 * 1992 - Death of Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
 * 1997 - Death of Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian–Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920)
 * 2004 - The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093
 * 2005 - Death of Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)