Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 22

September 22:

• 1703 - Death of Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)

• 1715 - Birth of Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)

• 1717 - Birth of Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)

• 1741 - Birth of Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)

• 1765 - Birth of Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)

• 1777 - Death of John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)

• 1791 - Birth of Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)

• 1888 - The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published

• 1901 - Birth of Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)

• 1912 - Birth of Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor

• 1922 - Birth of Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate

• 1956 - Death of Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)