Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 14

February 14:

 * 1468 - Birth of Johann Werner, German mathematician (d. 1522)


 * 1838 - Birth of Margaret E. Knight, American inventor, famous as female Thomas Edison, (d. 1914)


 * 1848 - Birth of Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934)


 * 1869 - Birth of Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1959)


 * 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray


 * 1894 - Death of Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)


 * 1898 - Birth of Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)


 * 1918 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar)


 * 1904 - Birth of Charles Oatley, Professor of electrical engineering, (scanning electron microscope), (d. 1996)


 * 1917 - Birth of Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, Nobel Prize Laureate


 * 1943 - Death of David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)


 * 1961 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California


 * 1975 - Death of Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)


 * 1989 - Death of James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)