Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 23

October 23:

• 1581 – Death of Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)

• 1873 – Birth of William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)

• 1875 – Birth of Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)

• 1905 – Birth of Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)

• 1920 – Birth of Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)

• 1944 – Death of Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)

• 1986 – Death of Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)