Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 3

February 3:

• 1737 - Death of Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)

• 1817 - Birth of Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)

• 1832 - Death of George Crabbe, English naturalist (b. 1754)

• 1862 - Death of Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774)

• 1893 - Birth of Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)

• 1905 - Birth of Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)

• 1929 - Death of Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)

• 1956 - Death of Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)

• 1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon

• 1985 - Death of Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)