Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 16

December 16:

• 1687 - Death of William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)

• 1776 - Birth of Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810)

• 1804 - Birth of Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1889)

• 1809 - Death of Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)

• 1882 - Birth of Walther Meissner, German physicist (d. 1974)

• 1905 - Birth of Piet Hein, Danish mathematician and inventor (d. 1996)

• 1980 - Death of Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)