Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 2

September 2:

• 1764 - Death of Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)

• 1768 - Death of Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)

• 1850 - Birth of Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)

• 1853 - Birth of Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)

• 1859 - A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service

• 1865 - Death of William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)

• 1877 - Birth of Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1956)

• 1923 - Birth of René Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)