Template:Selected anniversaries/December 11
From Gnomon Chronicles
1781: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster born.
1792: French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
1882: Physicist and mathematician Max Born born. He will win the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".
1922: Physicist Peter Mazur born. Mazur will pioneer the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
1998: Physicist and mathematician André Lichnerowicz dies. He worked in differential geometry and mathematical physics.
