Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 7
- 1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France
- 1867 – Birth of Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934)
- 1872 – Death of Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
- 1888 – Birth of Sir C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1898 – Birth of Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
- 1903 – Birth of Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
- 1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
- 1915 – Birth of Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Birth of Eric R. Kandel, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1968 – Death of Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 2001 – The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus