Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 19

December 19:

• 1714 - Birth of John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)

• 1813 - Birth of Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)

• 1814 - Death of Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump

• 1852 - Birth of Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1931)

• 1901 - Birth of Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)

• 1903 - Birth of George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)

• 1915 - Death of Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)

• 1944 - Birth of Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist

• 1946 - Death of Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)

• 1953 - Death of Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1868)

• 1961 - Birth of Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel laureate

• 2004 - Death of Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)