Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 16

January 16:

• 1477 - Birth of Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)

• 1547 - Death of Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)

• 1554 - Death of Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)

• 1834 - Death of Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)

• 1856 - Death of Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)

• 1875 - Birth of Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)

• 1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole

• 1932 - Birth of Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)

• 1967 - Death of Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)

• 2002 - Death of Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)