Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 4

October 4:

• 1562 – Birth of Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)

• 1759 – Birth of Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)

• 1904 – Death of Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)

• 1916 – Birth of Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate

• 1918 – Birth of Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)

• 1938 – Birth of Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate

• 1947 – Death of Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1858)

• 1957 - Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth

• 2000 – Death of Michael Smith, biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)

• 2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. By being the first private craft to fly into space