Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 3

February 3:

 * 1737 - Death of Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)


 * 1817 - Birth of Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)


 * 1832 - Death of George Crabbe, English naturalist (b. 1754)


 * 1862 - Death of Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774)


 * 1893 - Birth of Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)


 * 1905 - Birth of Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)


 * 1929 - Death of Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)


 * 1956 - Death of Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)


 * 1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon


 * 1985 - Death of Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)