Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 26

February 26:

 * 1638 - Death of Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1681)


 * 1786 - Birth of François Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)


 * 1799 - Birth of Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)


 * 1814 - Birth of Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)


 * 1866 - Birth of Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (d. 1930)


 * 1903 - Birth of Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)


 * 1931 - Death of Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1847)


 * 1935 - The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom


 * 1946 - Birth of Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, Nobel laureate


 * 1952 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb