Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 4

September 4:

• 1784 - Death of César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)

• 1852 - Death of William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)

• 1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film

• 1906 - Birth of Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)

• 1913 - Birth of Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)

• 1977 - Death of Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894)

• 2006 - Death of Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962)