Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 20

January 20:

 * 1775 - Birth of André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)


 * 1812 - Birth of Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)


 * 1910 - Birth of Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist and writer (d. 1980)


 * 1931 - Birth of David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate


 * 1948 - Birth of Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician


 * 2005 - Death of Miriam Louisa Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)