Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/May 23

May 23

• 1691 - Death of Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
• 1707 - Birth of Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
• 1734 - Birth of Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d.1815)
• 1857 - Death of Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician {b. 1789)
• 1884 - Birth of Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
• 1887 - Birth of Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
• 1893 - Birth of Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
• 1895 - Death of Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (b. 1798)
• 1908 - Birth of John Bardeen, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 1917 - Birth of Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist
• 1925 - Birth of Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1958 - Explorer 1, the first US Earth satellite, ceases transmission.
• 2002 - The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.