Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 27
February 27:[edit]
- 1887 - Death of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
- 1899 - Birth of Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
- 1904 - Birth of Yulii Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
- 1926 - Birth of David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 - Birth of Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
- 1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
- 1942 - Birth of Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1989 - Death of Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)