Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 9

October 9:

 * 1562 – Death of Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)


 * 1581 – Birth of Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)


 * 1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way


 * 1704 – Birth of Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)


 * 1806 – Death of Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)


 * 1852 – Birth of Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)


 * 1879 – Birth of Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)


 * 1933 – Birth of Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate


 * 1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 mi to Los Angeles, California


 * 1943 – Birth of Douglas Kirby, Research scientist


 * 1943  – Death of Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)


 * 1967 – Death of Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)


 * 1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu