Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 27

November 27:

 * 1701 – Birth of Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)


 * 1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703


 * 1754 – Birth of Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)


 * 1754  – Death of Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)


 * 1811 – Death of Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)


 * 1852 – Death of Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)


 * 1871 – Birth of Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)


 * 1884 – Death of Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)


 * 1903 – Birth of Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)


 * 1908 – Death of Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)


 * 1909 – Birth of Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)


 * 1911 – Birth of Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist


 * 1944 – Death of Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)


 * 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet