Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 27

January 27:

 * 1851 - Death of John James Audubon, French-born naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1789)


 * 1860 - Death of János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)


 * 1903 - Birth of John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1997)


 * 1936 - Birth of Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel Laureate


 * 1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on the Frenchman Flats


 * 1972 - Death of Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888)


 * 1983 - Pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido breaks through