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Science on the 27th of September in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
27 Sep 1507 Guillaume Rondelet	science	birth Guillaume Rondelet Guillaume Rondelet, French physician (died 1566)	0
27 Sep 1677 Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr	science	birth Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (died 1750)	0
27 Sep 1719 Abraham Gotthelf Kästner	science	birth Abraham Gotthelf Kästner Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, mathematician (died 1800)	0
27 Sep 1724 Anton Friedrich Busching	science	birth Anton Friedrich Busching Anton Friedrich Busching, German geographer (died 1793)	0
27 Sep 1725 Patrick d'Arcy	science	birth Patrick d'Arcy Patrick d'Arcy, Irish-born mathematician (died 1779)	0
27 Sep 1735 Peter Artedi	science	death Peter Artedi Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (born 1705)	0
27 Sep 1818 Hermann Kolbe	science	birth Hermann Kolbe Hermann Kolbe (died 1884), German chemist.	0
27 Sep 1825 steam locomotives	science	steam locomotives (technology) The world's longest railway to be worked by steam locomotives at this date, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in northern England.	0
27 Sep 1831 British Association for the Advancement of Science	science	British Association for the Advancement of Science (institutions) British Association for the Advancement of Science first meets, in York.	0
27 Sep 1838 Bernard Courtois	science	death Bernard Courtois Bernard Courtois (born 1777), chemist.	0
27 Sep 1918 Martin Ryle	science	birth Martin Ryle Martin Ryle (died 1984), astronomer.	0
27 Sep 1925 Robert G. Edwards	science	birth Robert G. Edwards Robert G. Edwards (died 2013), British physiologist and pioneer of in vitro fertilisation; winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
27 Sep 1931 W. Maxwell Cowan	science	birth W. Maxwell Cowan W. Maxwell Cowan (died 2002), South African neuroanatomist	0
27 Sep 1934 Ellen Willmott	science	death Ellen Willmott Ellen Willmott (born 1858), English horticulturist.	0
27 Sep 1937 Bali tiger	science	Bali tiger (biology) Last Bali tiger dies.	0
27 Sep 1983 Richard Stallman	science	Richard Stallman (computer science) Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project.	0
27 Sep 2003 European	science	European (space exploration) The first European lunar mission Smart 1 launched.	0
27 Sep 2007 asteroid belt	science	asteroid belt (, discoveries ) NASA's Dawn spacecraft is launched, beginning its journey to the asteroid belt objects Vesta and Ceres. It reached Vesta in 2011, and will reach Ceres in 2015.	0

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