Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 10

July 10:

• 1680 - Death of Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)

• 1682 - Birth of Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)

• 1802 - Birth of Robert Chambers, Scottish author and naturalist (d. 1871)

• 1809 - Birth of Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)

• 1832 - Birth of Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)

• 1902 - Birth of Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

• 1920 - Birth of Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)

• 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, is accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act

• 1927 - Birth of Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician

• 1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit

• 1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago