Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 16

July 16:

 * 1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco


 * 1888 - Birth of Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)


 * 1916 - Death of Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)


 * 1926 - Birth of Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate


 * 1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22nd


 * 1994  - Death of Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)