Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 4

February 4:

 * 1508 - Death of Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)


 * 1725 - Birth of Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)


 * 1774 - Death of Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)


 * 1778 - Birth of A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)


 * 1846 - Birth of Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)


 * 1859 - The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt


 * 1875 - Birth of Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)


 * 1896 - Birth of Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)


 * 1906 - Birth of Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)


 * 1928 - Death of Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1853)


 * 1936 - Radium E becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically


 * 1957 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), logs 60,000 nmi, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.


 * 1974 - Death of Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)