Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 1

December 1:

• 1525 - Birth of Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
• 1743 - Birth of Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817)
• 1750 - Death of Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
• 1792 - Birth of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
• 1925 - Birth of Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1964 - Death of J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)