Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 10

September 10:

• 1749 - Death of Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)

• 1846 - Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine

• 1892 - Birth of Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)

• 1931 - Death of Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)

• 1937 - Birth of Jared Diamond, American biologist and author

• 1966 - Death of Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)

• 1975 - Death of George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

• 1983 - Death of Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

• 1996 - Death of Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)

• 2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland