Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 25

February 25:

• 1682 - Birth of Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)

• 1836 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver

• 1919 - Birth of Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist

• 1953 - Death of Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)

• 1971 - The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online

• 1971 - Death of Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)

• 1999 - Death of Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)