Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 27

September 27:

• 1719 - Birth of Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)

• 1735 - Death of Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)

• 1783 - Death of Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)

• 1818 - Birth of Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)

• 1838 - Death of Bernard Courtois, French chemist (b. 1777)

• 1842 - Birth of Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)

• 1843 - Birth of Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)

• 1879 - Birth of Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (d. 1934)

• 1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc²

• 1911 - Death of Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)

• 1919 - Birth of James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)

• 1924 - Birth of Fred Singer, American scientist

• 1933 - Birth of Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist (d. 2007)

• 1940 - Death of Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)

• 1972 - Death of S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)