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Science on the 11th of January in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
11 Jan 1545 Guidobaldo del Monte	science	birth Guidobaldo del Monte Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician (died 1607)	0
11 Jan 1698 Tsar	science	Tsar (technology) April 21 – Tsar Peter the Great of Russia (incognito as 'Peter Mikhailov') visits England as part of his Grand Embassy, making a particular study of shipbuilding.	0
11 Jan 1707 Vincenzo Riccati	science	birth Vincenzo Riccati Vincenzo Riccati, Italian mathematician (died 1775)	0
11 Jan 1732 Peter Forsskål	science	birth Peter Forsskål Peter Forsskål, Finnish naturalist (died 1763)	0
11 Jan 1787 William Herschel	science	William Herschel (astronomy) William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, the first moons of Uranus found.	0
11 Jan 1867 Edward B. Titchener	science	birth Edward B. Titchener Edward B. Titchener (died 1927), English-born structuralist psychologist.	0
11 Jan 1882 Theodor Schwann	science	death Theodor Schwann Theodor Schwann (born 1810), physiologist.	0
11 Jan 1887 Louis Pasteur	science	Louis Pasteur (medicine) Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the French Academy of Medicine by Dr. Joseph Grancher.	0
11 Jan 1895 Laurens Hammond	science	birth Laurens Hammond Laurens Hammond (died 1973), American inventor.	0
11 Jan 1906 Albert Hofmann	science	birth Albert Hofmann Albert Hofmann, (died 2008) chemist.	0
11 Jan 1922 insulin	science	insulin (medicine) First successful insulin treatment of diabetes, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.	0
11 Jan 1926 Lev Dyomin	science	birth Lev Dyomin Lev Dyomin (died 1998), Soviet Russian cosmonaut.	0
11 Jan 1939 Lockheed P-38 Lightning	science	Lockheed P-38 Lightning (technology) First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.	0
11 Jan 1949 Los Angeles, California	science	Los Angeles, California (meteorology) Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snowfall.	0
11 Jan 1964 U.S. Surgeon General	science	U.S. Surgeon General (medicine) U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to health in the first such statement from the Federal government of the United States.	0
11 Jan 1988 I.I. Rabi	science	death I.I. Rabi I.I. Rabi (born 1898), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms and molecules.	0

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