Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 11

September 11:

 * 1522 - Birth of Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)


 * 1721 - Death of Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)


 * 1760 - Death of Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)


 * 1798 - Birth of Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)


 * 1915 - The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using overhead AC trolley wires for powe


 * 1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer


 * 1951 - Birth of Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician