Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 18

February 18:

 * 901 - Death of Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)


 * 1535 - Death of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, astrologer and alchemist (b. 1486)


 * 1745 - Birth of Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)


 * 1788 - Death of John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)


 * 1838 - Birth of Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)


 * 1930 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto


 * 1957 - Death of Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877)


 * 1967 - Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)