Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 22

February 22:

 * 1500 - Birth of Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)


 * 1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published


 * 1731 - Death of Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)


 * 1796 - Birth of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)


 * 1817 - Birth of Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)


 * 1824 - Birth of Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)


 * 1849 - Birth of Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)


 * 1857 - Birth of Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)


 * 1875 - Death of Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)


 * 1878 - Birth of Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)


 * 1879 - Birth of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)


 * 1880 - Birth of Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)


 * 1902 - Birth of Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)


 * 1962 - Birth of Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)