Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/May 19

May 19
 * 1773 - Birth of Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer (d. 1854)
 * 1914 - Birth of Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
 * 1939 - Birth of Dick Scobee, astronaut (d. 1986)
 * 1971 - The Mars 2 spaceprobe is launched by the Soviet Union.
 * 2000 - Death of Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)