Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 11
September 11:[edit]
- 1522 - Birth of Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
- 1721 - Death of Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
- 1760 - Death of Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
- 1798 - Birth of Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)
- 1915 - The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using overhead AC trolley wires for powe
- 1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer
- 1951 - Birth of Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician