Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 19

October 19:

• 1688 – Birth of William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)

• 1858 – Birth of George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)

• 1897 – Birth of Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994)

• 1909 – Birth of Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)

• 1910 – Birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

• 1937 – Death of Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1871)

• 1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University

• 1951 – Birth of Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize