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1816: Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Nièpce uses a camera obscura to capture images on chlorosilicate paper. But he can not fix the recordings yet.

births
1610: Johann Michael Fehr, german doctor
1652: Johann Baptist Röschel, Hungarian physicist and Lutheran theologian
1781: Friedrich Adolph August Struve, Doctor and pharmacist
1850 – Edward Weston, English-American chemist
1892: Walter Zimmermann, German biologist and botanist
1909: Hilde Levi, German-Danish physicist
1927 – Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic
1948: Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician

deaths
1548: Augustin Schurff, German physicist and physician
1850: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, french chemist and physicist
1862: Theodor Bilharz, German physician and natural scientist
1931: Albert A. Michelson, us americal physicist an Nobel Prize laureate
1935 – Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist
1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer
2004: Walter Hugo Stockmeyer, American chemist and co-founder of the journal Macromolecules, died in Norwich.

1954: Texas Instruments introduces the first silicon transistor in Dayton, Ohio.

births
1746: Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and physicist
1788: Augustin Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer
1847: Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic
1898: Rudolph Schönheimer, german biochemist
1900: Ernst Ising, German mathematician and physicist
1901: John Desmond Bernal, British physicist and science historian
1914: Karl-Heinz Lauterjung, german nuclear physicist
1918 – Diva Diniz Corrêa, Brazilian zoologist
1930: George E. Smith, American physicist and Nobel laureate

deaths
1482: Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer
1566: Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist
1787: William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist
1829: Thomas Young, British physicist
1891: Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss botanist
1910: Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic
1992: K. G. Ramanathan, Indian mathematician
2003: Milan Vukcevich, Serbian-American chemist and chess player

868: In China, the diamond sutra is produced as a wood panel print. This document with texts of Mahayana Buddhism is considered the oldest print book product of history.

births
1871: Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author
1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer
1911: Ludwig Kratz, german chemist
1914: Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist
1918: Richard Feynman, American physicist and Nobel laureate
1924: Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician
1924: Antony Hewish, British physicist and Nobel laureate
1930: Hans Mohr, German biologist
1933: Dieter Heß, German botanist

deaths
1610: Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician
1686: Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician
1871: John Herschel, British astronomer
1887: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic
1891: Alexandre Edmond Becquerel, French physicist
1916: Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist
1934 Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist and academic
1981: Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist
1998: Ernst Ising, German mathematician and physicist
2011: Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic

1364: The University of Krakow is founded according to the papal permit. The Polish King Kasimir III. Thus building the second university in Central Europe.
1551: The Universidad Nacional Mayor of San Marcos in Lima is founded at the behest of Charles V. It is the oldest continuous university on the American continent.

births
1798: Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma, dutch chemist, botanist and agricultural scientist
1800: Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart, french astronomer
1803: Justus von Liebig, german chemist
1806: Georg Adolf Erman, german physicist
1823: John Russell Hind, british astronomer
1851: Samuel Dickstein, polish mathematician
1895: William Francis Giauque, american chemist
1896: Erich Correns, German chemist and politician
1906: Maurice Ewing, american physicist
1910: Dorothy Mary Hodgkin, british biochemist, Nobel laureate

deaths
1684: Edme Mariotte, french physicist
1748: Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer and academic
1784: Abraham Trembley, Swiss zoologist and academic
1856: Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
1878: Anselme Payen, French chemist
1910: William Huggins,british astronomer

births
1588: Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian
1713: Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist
1738: Ernst Gottfried Baldinger, german physician
1795: Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and chronologist
1840: Gustav von Hüfner, german chemist
1857: Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
1865: Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele, german chemist
1905: Kurt Diebner, german atomphysicist
1914: Antonia Ferrín Moreiras, Spanish mathematician, academic, and astronomer

deaths
1782: Daniel Solander, Swedish-English botanist and phycologist
1826: Christian Kramp, Physician, mathematician and physicist
1832: Georges Cuvier, French zoologist and academic
1866: Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic
1871: Anselme Payen, french chemist, physicist and mathematician
1878: Joseph Henry, american scientist
1926: Friedrich August Bender, german chemist and entrepreneur
1957: Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic
1975: Marguerite Perey, french chemist and physicist
1984: Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, polish mathematician
2005: George Dantzig, American mathematician and academic
2006: Manfred Heindler, austrian physicist

1796: English physician Edward Jenner gave eight-year-old James Phipps the first vaccination against smallpox from a serum of cowpox virus developed by him

births
1679: Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and mathematician
1701: William Emerson, English mathematician
1725: Friedrich Anton von Heynitz, german physicist
1828: Adalbert von Waltenhofen, austrian physicist and electrical engineer
1832: Rudolf Lipschitz, german mathematician
1837: George Shoobridge Carr, british mathematician
1863: John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal
1886: Ernst Späth, austrian chemist
1897: Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist
1899: Pierre Auger, french physicist
1899: Charlotte Auerbach, German-Jewish Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist

deaths
1734: Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist and physician
1761: Thomas Simpson, british mathematician
1893: Ernst Kummer, German mathematician
1899: Lars Fredrik Nilson, swedish chemist
1945: Isis Pogson, English astronomer and meteorologist
2015: Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic

1355: Emperor Charles IV confirms the university status of the University of Perugia, founded on 8 September 1308 by Pope Clement V.
1890: Electricity plants Reichenhall, which are operated by hydroelectric power, are the first AC power plant in Germany to operate.

births
1720: Maximilian Hell, hungarian priest and astronomer
1857: Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer
1859: Pierre Curie, french physicist and Nobel laureate
1891: Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic
1900: Ida Rhodes, American mathematician
1903: Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist
1910: Theodor Förster, german physics chemist
1913: Heinz Haber, german astrophysicist
1925: Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist and biologist
1949: Robert S.J. Sparks, English geologist and academic
1951: Frank Wilczek, American mathematician and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1953: Athene Donald, English physicist and academic

deaths
1903: Eugen Lucius, german chemist, industrialist and patron
1926: Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist
1991: Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic

1810: The two book volumes on the color theory of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are published by Tübingen's Cotta'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung. His essay Beyträge zur Optik is among others.
1919: In Yerevan, at this time capital of the Democratic Republic of Armenia, the State University Yerevan is founded.

births
1718: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philanthropist
1763: Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist, born in Saint-André-d''Hébertot. He discovered beryllium and chromium, and described many separations.
1821: Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev, Russian mathematician
1845: Élie Metchnikoff, Ukrainian-French biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1852: Eduard Zacharias, German botanist
1888: Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker
1925: Nancy Roman, American astronomer
1930: Karl Heinz Beckurts, German physicist and manager
1950: Johannes Georg Bednorz, German physicist

death
1682: Andreas Concius, German mathematician
1830: Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist
1940: Otto Dimroth, german chemist
1946: Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman
1947: Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
2013: Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate

1861: The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell introduces the first color photo in a lecture at the Royal Institution.
1969: In the course of the Venera Venera missions, the Venera 6 state probe reaches the planet Venus. It transmits data for 51 minutes before destroying atmospheric pressure.

births
1749: Edward Jenner, English physician and microbiologist
1763: Pierre-Auguste Adet, french physician and chemist
1818: Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician
1836: Joseph Norman Lockyer, british astrophysicist
1860: Charlotte Barnum, American mathematician and social activist
1897: Odd Hassel, norwegian chemist
1909: Julius Sumner Miller, American physicist and academic
1926: Franz Sondheimer, german chemist

deaths
1765: Alexis-Claude Clairaut, french mathematician and physicist
1916: Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist
2001: Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician
2014: Gerald M. Edelman, American physician and Nobel laureate

44 BC: The comet C / -43 K1 (comet Caesar) is discovered in China. In July of that same year, he was visible in Rome, and was regarded by the people as the divine appearance of the soul of the murdered Gaius Iulius Caesar, and was used by his adoptive son Octavianus, the later Emperor Augustus, to theatrical theological propaganda.

births
1048: Omar Chajjam, Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet
1711: Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician
1777: John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist
1778: Andrew Ure, British physician, professor of natural history and chemistry
1783: Jabbo Oltmanns, Ostfriesian mathematician, astronomer and professor of applied mathematics
1824: Wilhelm Hofmeister, German botanist
1850: Oliver Heaviside, British mathematician and physicist
1889: Thomas Midgley, american chemist and inventor
1901: Robert Ochsenfeld, german physicist
1901: Vincent du Vigneaud, american biochemist
1926: Kurt Hirschhorn, American human geneticist
1941: Malcolm Longair, Scottish astronomer, physicist, and academic

deaths
1675: Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian
1912: Eduard Strasburger, Polish-German botanist
1922: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1971: Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist
2004: Arnold Orville Beckman, american chemist
2007: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel laureate
2014: Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist and essayist
2014: Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
2015: Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic

861: On a temple site in Nōgata on the Japanese island of Kyūshū is a meteorite. The case of the chondrite is observed and the piece is kept in a shrine for posterity.
1780: The "Dark Day" causes uncertainty in New England. The cause of the unusual darkness can never be finally clarified.

births
1752: Philipp Ludwig Wittwer, deutscher Mediziner
1773: Arthur Aikin, englischer Chemiker, Mineraloge und Autor
1841: Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold, deutscher Chemiker und Physiker
1857: John Jacob Abel, US-amerikanischer Biochemiker und Pharmakologe
1867: Otto Appel, deutscher Phytomediziner
1901: Otto Ambros, deutscher Chemiker, verurteilter Kriegsverbrecher und Wehrwirtschaftsführer
1914: Max Ferdinand Perutz, britischer Chemiker und Nobelpreisträger 1962
1918: Abraham Pais, niederländischer Physiker
1927: Serge Lang, US-amerikanischer Mathematiker

deaths
2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Births
1537: Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist
1834: Albert Niemann, german chemist
1860: Eduard Buchner, german chemist and Nobel laureate
1900: Erika Cremer, german physics chemist
1901: Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author
1908: Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist and author
1913: Isaak Pomerantschuk, russian physicist
1945: Anton Zeilinger, austrian quantum physicist

Deaths
1722: Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist and mycologist
1782: William Emerson, English mathematician and academic
1793: Charles Bonnet, Naturalist and philosopher
1947: Philipp Eduard Anton von Leonberg, german physicist and Nobel laureate
1959: Jakob Joos, german physicist
1967: Leonhard Grebe, german physicist
1982: Merle Antony Tuve, american physicist and geophysicist
2002: Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and academic
2007: Stanley Miller, american biologist and chemist

births
1792: Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and physicist
1799: Mary Anning, English paleontologist
1850: Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist
1921: Andrei Sacharow, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1923: Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic
1934: Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1936: Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1945: Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut

deaths
1670: Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist
1786: Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist
1854: Bernhard von Lindenau, German astronomer
1894: August Kundt, German physicist
1911: Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic
1919: Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist
1935: Hugo de Vries, Dutch biologist
1953: Ernst Zermelo, German mathematician
1964: James Franck, German-American physicist
1970: E. L. Grant Watson, English-Australian biologist and author

births
1783: William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor
1848: Hermann Schubert, German mathematician
1905: Bodo von Borries, German physicist, co-inventor of the electron microscope
1912: Herbert Charles Brown, British chemist, Nobel laureate
1920: Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist
1927: George A. Olah, Hungarian-American chemist
1933: Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician and academic
1946: Michael Green, English physicist and academic
1946: Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer
1954: Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate

deaths
1666: Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician
1868: Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist
1956: Walther Kossel, German physicist
1967: Josip Plemelj, Yugoslav mathematician
1983: Albert Claude, Belgian physician, Nobel laureate
1997: Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
1998: José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer
2010: Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author

births
1606: Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher
1707: Carl von Linne, Sweden Naturalist in Räshult / Småland
1848: Otto Lilienthal, German pioneer of the gliding and muscle power flight
1887: Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist
1908: John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1915: Clyde E. Wiegand, American physicist, co-discoverer of anti-proton
1923: Irving Millman, American virologist and microbiologist
1925: Joshua Lederberg, American Hereditary researcher, 1958 Nobel prize for medicine
1940: Cora Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic
1942: Robert Bergman, American chemist

deaths
1691: Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker
1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy,French mathematician
1895: Franz Ernst Neumann, German physicist, is regarded as one of the founders of theoretical physics
2015: John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1681: The Canal du Midi, built according to plans by the engineer Pierre-Paul Riquet, is officially opened in the south of France. It links Toulouse with the Mediterranean
1844: Samuel F. Morse sends the first telegram to Morse Code of Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. The content of the message is "What hath God wrought?"

births
1544: William Gilbert, English physician, physicist, and astronomer
1686: Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, German physicist
1803: Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist
1894: Hu Xiansu, Chinese botanist
1914: Herbert Lawrence Anderson, american nuclear physicist

deaths
1543: Nikolaus Kopernikus, Polish astronomer
1734: Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist
1843: Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic

1842: The Austrian physicist Christian Doppler presents in Prague, in front of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, his article on the color light of the double stars and some other stars of heaven, prognosticating the doppler-effect.

births
1815: Giovanni Caselli, Italian physicist
1841: Louis Aronstein, german chemist
1865: Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate
1868: Charles Hitchcock Adams, American chemist, wood merchant and amateur astronomer
1894: Jakob Christoph Georg Joos, German physicist
1921: Jack Steinberger, American physicist and Nobel laureate
1944: Robert MacPherson, American mathematician and academic

deaths
986: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Muslim astronomer
1555: Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer
1632: Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher
1772: Johann Gottfried Teske, German physicist
1789: Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist and physician
1801: Nicolai Jacob Wilse, Norwegian natural scientist
1939: Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer and academic
1981: Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer

1970: As the first civilian commercial aircraft, a Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 of the Chief Constructor Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev reached Mach 2.

births
1667: Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician
1669: Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist and mycologist
1814: Heinrich Geißler, German physicist and inventor
1821: Amalie Dietrich, German botanist and zoologist
1826: Richard Christopher Carrington, British astronomer
1929: Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer
1951: Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut, founded Sally Ride Science

deaths
1799: James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish linguist, biologist, and judge
1888: Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist
1938: John Jacob Abel, American biochemist and pharmacologist
1997: Manfred von Ardenne, German natural scientist
1999: Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer
2004: Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer
2015: Robert Kraft, American astronomer and academic

669 BC A royal servant holds a solar eclipse observed in the region around Babylon on a cuneiform tablet.
1961: With the help of the poly-U experiment, Heinrich Matthaei demonstrates for the first time that a "code word" (the codon UUU) for an amino acid (here: phenylalanine) is in the DNA.

births
1623: William Petty, British physicist and economist
1840: Lars Fredrik Nilson, Swedish chemist
1897: John Cockcroft, English physicist
1907: Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author

deaths
1712: Johann Baptist Röschel, Hungarian physicist and theologian
1910: Robert Koch, German bacteriologist
1945: Pieter van Romburgh, Dutch chemist and university professor
1987: John Howard Northrop, American chemist
1988: Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
2009: Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist
2012: Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician
2012: David Rimoin, Canadian-American geneticist and academic

births
1676: Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic
1836: Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist
1872: Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer
1879: Milutin Milanković, Serbian astrophysicist
1912: Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer
1917: Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician
1930: Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist
1942: Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate

deaths
1773: Georg Gottlob Richter, German physician
1905: Friedrich Junge, German biologist
1910: Emil Zuckerkandl, Austrian physician
1912: Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist
1980: Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician and academic
2000: George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer
2000: Donald Watts Davies, British physicist
2001: Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher
2003: Ilya Prigogine, russisch-belgischer Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger

births
1675: Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher
1716: Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist and mineralogist
1780: Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist
1794: Johann Heinrich von Mädler (German astronomer)
1859: Hugo Hergesell, German meteorologist and geophysicist
1897: Johannes Winkler (German space pioneer) in Bad Carlsruhe. One of his pioneering achievements was the construction of the first European liquid rocket.
1905: Kurt Schwabe, German electrochemist
1929: Peter Higgs, British physicist
1932: Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
1948: Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic

deaths
1586: Adam Lonitzer, German naturalist
1660: Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician
1829: Humphry Davy (british chemist)
1896: Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic
1897: Julius Sachs, german botanist
1908: William Arnold Anthony, american physicist
1996: Antonin Mrkos, Czech astronomer
2014: Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic

births
1423: Georg von Peuerbach, German mathematician and astronomer
1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist
1800: Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, deutscher Mathematiker
1814: Eugène Charles Catalan, belgischer Mathematiker
1869: Grace Andrews, American mathematician
1878: Raymond Smith Dugan, US-amerikanischer Astronom
1879: Anne Shymer, US-amerikanische Chemikerin
1908: Hannes Alfvén, schwedischer Physiker, Nobelpreisträger
1909: Norris Bradbury, US-amerikanischer Physiker
1912: Julius Axelrod, US-amerikanischer Biochemiker, Nobelpreisträger
1912: Erich Bagge, German physicist and academic
1927: Joan Birman, American mathematician
1955: Jacqueline McGlade, English-Canadian biologist, ecologist, and academic

deaths
1916: Adolph Frank, deutscher Chemiker
1926: Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist
1927: Vincenzo Cerulli, italienischer Astronom
1946: Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist
1992: Antoni Zygmund, US-amerikanischer Mathematiker
2006: David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist and academic
2009: Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel
2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
2012: Andrew Fielding Huxley, britischer Biophysiker und Physiologe, Nobel Prize laureate

Born in
1912: Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-US-American physicist
1931: John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist, Nobel Prize 1972

Deceased
1009: Ibn Yunus, Egyptian astronomer and mathematician
1867: Théophile-Jules Pelouze, French chemist
1918: Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist
1938: Ludwig Hermann, German chemist and entrepreneur
1965: Dankwart Otto Heinrich Emil Rudolf Ackermann, German physiologist and chemist
1976: Jacques Monod, French biochemist
2006: Raymond Davis junior, US chemist, Nobel laureate in physics