Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 18

February 18:

• 901 - Death of Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)

• 1535 - Death of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, astrologer and alchemist (b. 1486)

• 1745 - Birth of Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)

• 1788 - Death of John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)

• 1838 - Birth of Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)

• 1930 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto

• 1957 - Death of Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877)

• 1967 - Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)