Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 13

January 13:

 * 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter


 * 1796 - Death of John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)


 * 1845 - Birth of Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896)


 * 1858 - Birth of Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931)


 * 1861 - Birth of Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)


 * 1864 - Birth of Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)


 * 1870 - Birth of Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959


 * 1906 - Death of Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)


 * 1924 - Death of Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834)


 * 1934 - The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR


 * 1934  - Death of Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)


 * 1938 - The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution