Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 28

January 28:

 * 1540 - Birth of Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)


 * 1608 - Birth of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)


 * 1611 - Birth of Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)


 * 1622 - Birth of Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)


 * 1687 - Death of Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)


 * 1701 - Birth of Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)


 * 1724 - The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917


 * 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway


 * 1864 - Birth of Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)


 * 1864  - Death of Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)


 * 1884 - Birth of Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)


 * 1915 - Death of Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)


 * 1922 - Birth of Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)


 * 1950 - Death of Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)