Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 5

November 5:

• 1743 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle

• 1854 – Birth of Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

• 1855 – Birth of Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)

• 1879 – Death of James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)

• 1892 – Birth of J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)

• 1906 – Birth of Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)

• 1944 – Death of Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)

• 1948 – Birth of William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel laureate

• 1952 – Birth of Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist

• 1992 – Death of Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)

• 2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon