Template:Selected anniversaries/February 23
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1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss dies. Gauss had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1898: Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1940: The ENIAC (SETI) program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
