Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 2

November 2:

• 1885 – Birth of Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)

• 1894 – Birth of Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)

• 1911 – Birth of Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)

• 1944 – Death of Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)

• 1957 – The Levelland UFO case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history

• 1966 – Death of Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)

• 1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT