Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 30
Appearance
- 1822 - Birth of Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
- 1858 - Death of Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
- 1899 - Birth of Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)
- 1912 - Birth of Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
- 1925 - Birth of Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
- 1930 - The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR
- 1962 - Death of Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
- 1991 - Death of John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
- 1995 - Death of Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
- 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake