Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 14

October 14:

 * 1687 – Birth of Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)


 * 1801 – Birth of Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (d. 1883)


 * 1831 – Death of Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)


 * 1861 – Birth of Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)


 * 1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film


 * 1914 – Birth of Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)


 * 1932 – Birth of Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)


 * 1946 – Birth of Craig Venter, American biologist


 * 1958 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site


 * 1960 – Death of Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (b. 1880)


 * 1983 – Death of Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist (b. 1887)


 * 1984 – Death of Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)