Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 7

February 7:

• 1736 - Death of Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)

• 1877 - Birth of Godfrey Harold Hardy, English mathematician (d. 1947)

• 1889 - Birth of Harry Nyquist, important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)

• 1897 - Death of Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (b. 1847)

• 1926 - Birth of John Frank Davidson, British chemical engineer and Royal Medal holder

• 1958 - Birth of Matt Ridley, British science writer

• 1960 - Death of Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (b. 1903)

• 1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered