Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 15

January 15:

 * 1623 - Death of Fra Paolo Sarpi, Italian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer (b. 1552)


 * 1759 - The British Museum opens


 * 1790 - Death of John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)


 * 1804 - Death of Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)


 * 1850 - Birth of Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)


 * 1895 - Birth of Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)


 * 1908 - Birth of Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003)


 * 1973 - Death of Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)


 * 2005 - ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon


 * 2007 - Death of James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)