Template:Selected anniversaries/January 29

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  1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.

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  1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.

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  1916: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.

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  1926: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

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  1933: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

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  1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

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  1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter Samuel Eilenberg applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective Gnomon algorithm modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.