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Science on the 2nd of January in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
02 Jan 1802 Abraham Rees	science	Abraham Rees (publications) Rev. Abraham Rees begins publication in London of The New Cyclopædia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.	0
02 Jan 1816 Louis Guyton de Morveau	science	death Louis Guyton de Morveau Louis Guyton de Morveau, chemist (born 1737)	0
02 Jan 1818 Institution of Civil Engineers	science	Institution of Civil Engineers (technology) Institution of Civil Engineers inaugurated in London.	0
02 Jan 1822 Rudolf Clausius	science	birth Rudolf Clausius Rudolf Clausius, physicist (died 1888)	0
02 Jan 1839 Moon	science	Moon (astronomy) The first photograph of the Moon is taken by Louis Daguerre.	0
02 Jan 1857 Andrew Ure	science	death Andrew Ure Andrew Ure (born 1778), Scottish industrial chemist and encyclopaedist	0
02 Jan 1892 George Biddell Airy	science	death George Biddell Airy George Biddell Airy (born 1801), astronomer.	0
02 Jan 1893 Webb C. Ball	science	Webb C. Ball (technology) Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.	0
02 Jan 1893 John Obadiah Westwood	science	death John Obadiah Westwood John Obadiah Westwood (born 1805), English entomologist.	0
02 Jan 1905 Charles Dillon Perrine	science	Charles Dillon Perrine (astronomy) Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory discovers Elara, one of Jupiter's natural satellites.	0
02 Jan 1913 Léon Teisserenc de Bort	science	death Léon Teisserenc de Bort Léon Teisserenc de Bort (born 1855), meteorologist.	0
02 Jan 1935 IG Farben	science	IG Farben (pharmacology) IG Farben are granted a patent in Germany for the medical application of the first sulfonamide prodrug, Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730; marketed as Prontosil). In February, Gerhard Domagk and others publish (in Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift) the first clinical results on its properties as an antibiotic, the first commercially available; and in November a team directed by Ernest Fourneau at the Pasteur Institute identify sulfanilamide as the active component.	0
02 Jan 1953 Vincent Racaniello	science	birth Vincent Racaniello Vincent Racaniello, American virologist.	0
02 Jan 1954 Harold Hopkins	science	Harold Hopkins (physics) Harold Hopkins and Narinder Singh Kapany at Imperial College London report achieving low-loss light transmission through a 75 cm long optical fiber bundle.	0
02 Jan 1968 Christiaan Barnard	science	Christiaan Barnard (medicine) Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the second successful human heart transplant, in South Africa, on Philip Blaiberg, who survives for nineteen months.	0
02 Jan 2004 NASA	science	NASA (space exploration) NASA's Stardust space probe flies by comet 81P/Wild and collects particle samples from its coma.	0

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