Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 17

July 17:

• 1698 - Birth of Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)

• 1912 - Death of Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)

• 1920 - Birth of Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)

• 1929 - Birth of Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician

• 1944 - Death of William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)

• 1955 - Birth of Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist

• 1962 - Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site

• 1980 - Death of Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)