Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 5

July 5:

• 1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

• 1820 - Birth of William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist (d. 1872)

• 1859 - Death of Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)

• 1862 - Death of Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)

• 1891 - Birth of John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)

• 1904 - Birth of Ernst Mayr, American biologist (d. 2005)

• 1946 - Birth of Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laurete

• 1966 - Death of George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)