Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 12

December 12:

• 1685 - Death of John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)

• 1866 - Birth of Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1919)

• 1892 - Birth of Herman Potocnik aka Hermann Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929)

• 1889 - Death of Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804)

• 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland

• 1919 - Birth of Olivia Barclay, English astrologer (d. 2001)

• 1927 - Birth of Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)

• 1997 - Death of Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)