Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 27

November 27:

• 1701 – Birth of Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)

• 1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703

• 1754 – Birth of Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)

• 1754 – Death of Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)

• 1811 – Death of Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)

• 1852 – Death of Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)

• 1871 – Birth of Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)

• 1884 – Death of Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)

• 1903 – Birth of Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)

• 1908 – Death of Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)

• 1909 – Birth of Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)

• 1911 – Birth of Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist

• 1944 – Death of Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)

• 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet