Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 27

January 27:

• 1851 - Death of John James Audubon, French-born naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1789)

• 1860 - Death of János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)

• 1903 - Birth of John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1997)

• 1936 - Birth of Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel Laureate

• 1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on the Frenchman Flats

• 1972 - Death of Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888)

• 1983 - Pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido breaks through