Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 31

October 31:

• 1815 – Birth of Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (d. 1897)

• 1831 – Birth of Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)

• 1835 – Birth of Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)

• 1902 – Birth of Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1950)

• 1925 – Birth of John Pople, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)

• 1941 – Birth of Dan Alderson, American scientist

• 1943 – Birth of Paul Frampton, English physicist

• 1959 – Death of Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)

• 1986 – Death of Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1896)

• 2005 – Death of Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920)