Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 3

October 3:

• 1802 – Birth of John Gorrie, American scientist (d. 1855)

• 1891 – Death of Édouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)

• 1904 – Birth of Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)

• 1944 – Birth of Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician

• 1962 - Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight

• 1986 - TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened

• 2006 – Death of John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)