Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 22

October 22:

 * 1511 – Birth of Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)


 * 1729 – Birth of Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798)


 * 1792 – Death of Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)


 * 1881 – Birth of Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)


 * 1896 – Birth of Charles Glen King, American biochemist (d. 1988)


 * 1903 – Birth of George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)


 * 1921 – Birth of Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)


 * 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times


 * 1986 – Death of Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)


 * 2008 - India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1