Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 14

October 14:

• 1687 – Birth of Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)

• 1801 – Birth of Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (d. 1883)

• 1831 – Death of Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)

• 1861 – Birth of Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)

• 1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film

• 1914 – Birth of Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)

• 1932 – Birth of Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)

• 1946 – Birth of Craig Venter, American biologist

• 1958 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site

• 1960 – Death of Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (b. 1880)

• 1983 – Death of Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist (b. 1887)

• 1984 – Death of Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)