Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 1

November 1:

• 1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage

• 1585 – Birth of Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)

• 1704 – Birth of Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist (d. 1779)

• 1880 – Birth of Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)

• 1950 – Birth of Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1993 – Death of Severo Ochoa, Spanish biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)