Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 13

July 13:

• 1527 - Birth of John Dee, English scientist (d. 1609)

• 1762 - Death of James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)

• 1896 - Death of Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)

• 1921 - Death of Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)

• 1932 - Birth of Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist

• 1974 - Death of Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)