Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 9

December 9:

• 1508 - Birth of Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)

• 1571 - Birth of Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)

• 1625 - Death of Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)

• 1667 - Birth of William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)

• 1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encyclopaedist (b. 1650)

• 1748 - Birth of Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)

• 1868 - Birth of Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)

• 1883 - Birth of Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)

• 1894 - Death of Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)

• 1917 - Birth of James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)

• 1919 - Birth of William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate

• 1926 - Birth of Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)

• 1937 - Death of Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)

• 1955 - Death of Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)