Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 16

February 16:

 * 1497 - Birth of Philip Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (d. 1560)
 * 1531 - Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
 * 1698 - Birth of Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (d. 1758)
 * 1727 - Birth of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (d. 1817)
 * 1822 - Birth of Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911)
 * 1824 - Birth of Peter Kosler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
 * 1834 - Birth of Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
 * 1848 - Birth of Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist (d. 1935)
 * 1891 - Birth of Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (d. 1967)
 * 1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon
 * 1937  - Birth of Yuri Manin, Russian mathematician
 * 1980 - Death of Erich Hückel, German physicist (b. 1895)
 * 1997 - Death of Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1912)