Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 29

January 29:

 * 1688 - Birth of Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772)


 * 1810 - Birth of Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)


 * 1846 - Birth of Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)


 * 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile


 * 1901 - Birth of Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965)


 * 1926 - Birth of Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)


 * 1933 - Birth of Paul Sally, American mathematician


 * 1934 - Death of Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868)


 * 1947 - Birth of Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate


 * 1953 - Birth of Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist


 * 1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban