Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 12

October 12:

• 1712 – Birth of William Shippen, American physician and statesman (d. 1801)

• 1725 – Birth of Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810)

• 1792 – Birth of Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860)

• 1865 – Birth of Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)

• 1928 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston

• 1934 – Birth of Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician

• 1965 – Death of Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)