Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 31

October 31:

 * 1815 – Birth of Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (d. 1897)


 * 1831 – Birth of Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)


 * 1835 – Birth of Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)


 * 1902 – Birth of Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1950)


 * 1925 – Birth of John Pople, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)


 * 1941 – Birth of Dan Alderson, American scientist


 * 1943 – Birth of Paul Frampton, English physicist


 * 1959 – Death of Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)


 * 1986 – Death of Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1896)


 * 2005 – Death of Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920)