Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 27

February 27:

 * 1887 - Death of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)


 * 1899 - Birth of Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)


 * 1904 - Birth of Yulii Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)


 * 1926 - Birth of David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate


 * 1930 - Birth of Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist


 * 1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14


 * 1942 - Birth of Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate


 * 1989 - Death of Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)