Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 13

January 13:

• 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter

• 1796 - Death of John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)

• 1845 - Birth of Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896)

• 1858 - Birth of Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931)

• 1861 - Birth of Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)

• 1864 - Birth of Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)

• 1870 - Birth of Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959

• 1906 - Death of Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)

• 1924 - Death of Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834)

• 1934 - The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR

• 1934 - Death of Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)

• 1938 - The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution