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Science on the 5th of November in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
05 Nov 1500 Nicolaus Copernicus	science	Nicolaus Copernicus (astronomy) Nicolaus Copernicus observes a lunar eclipse from Rome.	0
05 Nov 1516 Martin Helwig	science	birth Martin Helwig Martin Helwig, Silesian cartographer (died 1574)	0
05 Nov 1702 Edward Stone	science	birth Edward Stone Edward Stone, English polymath (died 1768)	0
05 Nov 1714 Bernardino Ramazzini	science	death Bernardino Ramazzini Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born 1633)	0
05 Nov 1787 John Richardson	science	birth John Richardson John Richardson (died 1865), Scottish naturalist, explorer and surgeon.	0
05 Nov 1800 Jesse Ramsden	science	death Jesse Ramsden Jesse Ramsden, English scientific instrument maker (born 1735)	0
05 Nov 1802 Marc Isambard Brunel	science	Marc Isambard Brunel (technology) Marc Isambard Brunel begins installation of his blockmaking machinery at Portsmouth Block Mills in England.	0
05 Nov 1824 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	science	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (institutions) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first technological university in the English-speaking world, is founded in Troy, New York.	0
05 Nov 1855 Léon Teisserenc de Bort	science	birth Léon Teisserenc de Bort Léon Teisserenc de Bort (died 1913), meteorologist.	0
05 Nov 1879 James Clerk Maxwell	science	death James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (born 1831), mathematician and physicist.	0
05 Nov 1892 J. B. S. Haldane	science	birth J. B. S. Haldane J. B. S. Haldane (died 1964), British geneticist.	0
05 Nov 1906 Fred Lawrence Whipple	science	birth Fred Lawrence Whipple Fred Lawrence Whipple (died 2004), American astronomer who coined the term "dirty snowball" to explain the nature of comets.	0
05 Nov 1914 August Weismann	science	death August Weismann August Weismann (born 1834), German evolutionary biologist.	0
05 Nov 1927 Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing	science	Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing (technology) Completion of a bridge by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, the world's first railroad bridge of wholly welded construction.	0
05 Nov 1930 Christiaan Eijkman	science	death Christiaan Eijkman Christiaan Eijkman (born 1858), Dutch physiologist.	0
05 Nov 1942 Alexis Carrel	science	death Alexis Carrel Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, biologist and winner of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1873)	0
05 Nov 1976 Willi Hennig	science	death Willi Hennig Willi Hennig (b. 1913), German entomologist and pioneer of cladistics.	0
05 Nov 1992 Jan Oort	science	death Jan Oort Jan Oort (b. 1900), Dutch astronomer.	0

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