Portal : History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 5
1624 - Death of Gaspard Bauhin , Swiss botanist (b. 1560 )
1770 - Death of James Stirling , Scottish mathematician (b. 1692 )
1863 - Birth of Paul Painlevé , French mathematician (d. 1933 )
1868 - Birth of Arnold Sommerfeld , German physicist (d. 1951 )
1893 - First appearance of an electric car
1895 - Birth of Elbert Frank Cox , American mathematician (d. 1969 )
1896 - Birth of Carl Ferdinand Cori , Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1984 )
1901 - Birth of Werner Heisenberg , German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976 )
1903 - Birth of Cecil Frank Powell , English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1969 )
1907 - Birth of Giuseppe Occhialini , Italian physicist (d. 1993 )
1932 - German -born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa
1932 - Birth of Sheldon Lee Glashow , American physicist, Nobel laureate
1952 - Great Smog of 1952 : A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow
1973 - Death of Robert Watson-Watt , Scottish engineer, inventor of radar (b. 1892 )
2001 - Death of Franco Rasetti , Italian physicist (b. 1901 )