Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 10

September 10:

 * 1749 - Death of Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)


 * 1846 - Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine


 * 1892 - Birth of Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)


 * 1931 - Death of Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)


 * 1937 - Birth of Jared Diamond, American biologist and author


 * 1966 - Death of Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)


 * 1975 - Death of George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)


 * 1983 - Death of Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)


 * 1996 - Death of Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)


 * 2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland