Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 10

January 10:

 * 1573 - Birth of Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)


 * 1638 - Birth of Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)


 * 1654 - Death of Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)


 * 1729 - Birth of Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)


 * 1778 - Death of Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)


 * 1833 - Death of Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)


 * 1890 - Birth of Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)


 * 1898 - Birth of Katharine Blodgett, American Scientist and inventor (d. 1979)


 * 1916 - Birth of Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)


 * 1936 - Birth of Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel laureate


 * 1938 - Birth of Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist


 * 1949 - Death of Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)


 * 1951 - Death of Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)


 * 1962 - Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster. It became better known as the Saturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollo moon mission


 * 1997 - Death of Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)