Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 18

July 18:

 * 1635 - Birth of Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)


 * 1720 - Birth of Gilbert White, English ornithologist (d. 1793)


 * 1853 - Birth of Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)


 * 1884 - Death of Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)


 * 1937 - Birth of Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate


 * 1948 - Birth of Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel laureate


 * 1997 - Death of Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)


 * 2002 - Death of Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)