Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 29

November 29:

• 1759 – Death of Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)

• 1762 – Birth of Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist (d. 1833)

• 1803 – Birth of Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (d. 1853)

• 1849 – Birth of Sir John Ambrose Fleming, British physicist (d. 1945)

• 1877 – Birth of Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time

• 1910 – The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine

• 1992 – Death of Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (b. 1906)