Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 2

October 2:

 * 1851 - The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake


 * 1852 – Birth of William Ramsay, Scottish chemist (d. 1916)


 * 1853 – Death of François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)


 * 1907 – Birth of Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)


 * 1917 – Birth of Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, Nobel laureate


 * 1925 - John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system


 * 1927 – Death of Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)


 * 1947 – Death of Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)


 * 1962 – Death of Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)


 * 1987 – Death of Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)


 * 2002 – Death of Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)