Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 3
Appearance
- 1737 - Death of Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)
- 1817 - Birth of Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)
- 1832 - Death of George Crabbe, English naturalist (b. 1754)
- 1862 - Death of Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774)
- 1893 - Birth of Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
- 1905 - Birth of Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)
- 1929 - Death of Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
- 1956 - Death of Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
- 1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon
- 1985 - Death of Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)