Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 30

November 30:

• 1756 – Birth of Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)

• 1768 – Birth of Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)

• 1829 – First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking

• 1858 – Birth of Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)

• 1869 – Birth of Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)

• 1915 – Birth of Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)

• 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph

• 1936 – Birth of Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician

• 2007 – Death of Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)