Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 16

November 16:

• 1717 – Birth of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)

• 1779 – Death of Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)

• 1802 – Death of André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)

• 1896 – Birth of Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (d. 1982)

• 1922 – Death of Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)

• 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland

• 1945 – Cold War: Operation Paperclip: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology

• 1974 – Death of Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (b. 1882)

• 1999 – Death of Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)

• 2005 – Death of Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)