Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 30

January 30:

• 1822 - Birth of Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)

• 1858 - Death of Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)

• 1899 - Birth of Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)

• 1912 - Birth of Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)

• 1925 - Birth of Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist

• 1930 - The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR

• 1962 - Death of Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)

• 1991 - Death of John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)

• 1995 - Death of Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)

• 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake