Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 22

November 22:

• 1635 – Birth of Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)

• 1897 – Birth of Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)

• 1904 – Birth of Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)

• 1917 – Birth of Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate

• 1944 – Death of Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)

• 1981 – Death of Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)

• 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom