Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 1

January 1:

 * 1748 - Death of Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)


 * 1774 - Birth of André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (d. 1860)


 * 1796 - Death of Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)


 * 1800 - Death of Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716)


 * 1801 - The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi


 * 1803 - Birth of Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician (d. 1869)


 * 1817 - Death of Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)


 * 1852 - Birth of Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist (d. 1904)


 * 1853 - Death of Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (b. 1778)


 * 1854 - Birth of Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941)


 * 1862 - Death of Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)


 * 1876 - Birth of Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)


 * 1878 - Birth of Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)


 * 1890 - Birth of Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)


 * 1894 - Birth of Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)


 * 1894  - Death of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)


 * 1905 - Birth of Stanislaw Mazur, Polish mathematician (d. 1981)


 * 1912 - Birth of Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995)


 * 1917 - Birth of Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)


 * 1925 - The American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way


 * 1931 - Death of Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)


 * 1934 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring"


 * 1943 - Birth of Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist


 * 1995 - Death of Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)


 * 2007 - Death of Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (b. 1922)


 * 2007  - Death of Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943)