Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 15
- 1852 - Birth of Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1908)
- 1855 - Death of Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
- 1913 - Birth of Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (d. 2001)
- 1916 - Birth of Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- 1923 - Birth of Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist
- 1958 - Death of Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)