Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 25

December 25:

• 1642 - Birth of Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1727)

• 1763 - Birth of Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (d. 1805)

• 1765 - Death of Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)

• 1868 - Death of Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (b. 1821)

• 1876 - Birth of Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Nobel laureate (d. 1959)

• 1904 - Birth of Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)

• 1906 - Birth of Ernst Ruska, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)

• 1993 - Death of Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)