Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 26

November 26:

• 1678 – Birth of Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)

• 1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

• 1832 – Birth of Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)

• 1876 – Death of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)

• 1885 – Death of Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b. 1813)

• 1894 – Birth of Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (d. 1964)

• 1904 – Birth of Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)

• 1907 – Birth of Ruth Patrick, American botanist

• 1938 – Birth of Rodney Jory, Australian physicist

• 1940 – Birth of Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician

• 2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England