Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 14
January 14:[edit]
- 1679 - Death of Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
- 1684 - Birth of Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (d. 1742)
- 1742 - Death of Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
- 1898 - Death of Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
- 1901 - Death of Charles Hermite, French mathematician (b. 1822)
- 1905 - Death of Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
- 1966 - Death of Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1906)
- 1970 - Death of William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1978 - Death of Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis)
- 2001 - Death of Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)