Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 27

July 27:

• 1667 - Birth of Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)

• 1733 - Birth of Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)

• 1759 - Death of Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)

• 1833 - Birth of Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)

• 1844 - Death of John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)

• 1848 - Birth of Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)

• 1881 - Birth of Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)

• 1931 - Death of Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)

• 1999 - Death of Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)