Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 22

January 22:

 * 1561 - Birth of Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)


 * 1592 - Birth of Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)


 * 1767 - Death of Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)


 * 1796 - Birth of Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)


 * 1903 - Birth of Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)


 * 1908 - Birth of Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)


 * 1922 - Death of Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)


 * 1936 - Birth of Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate