Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 22

December 22:

• 1660 - Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)

• 1765 - Birth of Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)

• 1805 - Birth of John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)

• 1819 - Birth of Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892)

• 1828 - Death of William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766)

• 1853 - Birth of Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919)

• 1867 - Death of Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (b. 1788)

• 1869 - Birth of Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)

• 1872 - Birth of Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)

• 1887 - Birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)

• 1898 - Birth of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)

• 1903 - Birth of Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)