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Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November

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Selected anniversaries in November

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  • 1585 – Birth of Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)


  • 1643 – Death of Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)



  • 1992 – Death of Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)


  • 1771 – Death of John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)





  • 1695 – Birth of John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)





  • 1863 – Birth of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (d. 1944)


  • 1967 – The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert


  • 1779 – Death of Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)



  • 1905Albert Einstein's paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc²


  • 1652 – Death of Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)



  • 1774 – Birth of Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)