Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 10

November 10:

• 1605 – Death of Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)

• 1695 – Birth of John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)

• 1918 – Birth of Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)

• 1935 – Birth of Bernard Babior, American biochemist

• 1935 – Birth of Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist

• 1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States

• 1990 – Death of Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)