Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 20

September 20:

• 1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun

• 1815 - Death of Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725)

• 1842 - Birth of James Dewar, Scottish chemist (d. 1923)

• 1884 - Death of Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b. 1802)

• 1996 - Death of Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)