Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 23

September 23:

• 1773 - Death of Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
• 1791 - Birth of Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
• 1819 - Birth of Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
• 1846 - Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle
• 1877 - Death of Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (b. 1811)
• 1884 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine
• 1902 - Birth of Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
• 1915 - Birth of Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 2001)
• 1929 - Death of Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
• 1971 - Death of J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (b. 1888)
• 1992 - Scientists discover normal body temperature is not always 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit