Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 9

November 9:

• 1731 – Birth of Benjamin Banneker, African-American astrononomer (d. 1806)

• 1874 – Birth of Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)

• 1885 – Birth of Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)

• 1885 – Birth of Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954)

• 1897 – Birth of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)

• 1921 – Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect

• 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida

• 1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered