Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 23

April 23:

• 1628 - Birth of Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)

• 1635 - First public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts

• 1746 - Birth of Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)

• 1792 - Birth of John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)

• 1858 - Birth of Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)

• 1867 - William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel

• 1867 - Birth of Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1928)

• 1901 - Birth of E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)