Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 16

July 16:

• 1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco

• 1888 - Birth of Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)

• 1916 - Death of Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)

• 1926 - Birth of Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate

• 1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22nd

• 1994 - Death of Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)