Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 1

February 1:

• 1462 – Birth of Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (d. 1516)
• 1897 – Death of Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist (b. 1826)
• 1903 – Death of George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (b. 1819)
• 1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar
• 1958 – Death of Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Death of Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1921)
• 1976 – Death of Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Death of George Whipple, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1878)