Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 15

February 15:

• 1564 - Birth of Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)

• 1809 - Birth of Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)

• 1809 - Birth of André Dumont, Belgian geologist (d. 1857)

• 1847 - Death of Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)

• 1849 - Death of Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (b. 1804)

• 1861 - Birth of Charles Édouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1938)

• 1861 - Birth of Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1947)

• 1873 - Birth of Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1964)

• 1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania

• 1959 - Death of Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1879)

• 1988 - Death of Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1918)

• 1999 - Death of Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1926)

• 2001 - First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature