Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 5

February 5:

• 1608 - Birth of Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)

• 1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)

• 1795 - Birth of Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)

• 1840 - Birth of John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)

• 1840 - Birth of Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (Maxim gun) (d. 1916)

• 1910 - Birth of Charles Leblond, Canadian Cell Biologist (d. 2007)

• 1915 - Birth of Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)

• 1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)

• 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips"

• 1937 - Birth of Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist (d. 2006)

• 1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)