February 1

Isaac Leeser, who produced the first complete Jewish English translation of the Hebrew Bible and pioneered Jewish publishing in America, died in Philadelphia.

Herbert Winlock, the American Egyptologist whose Deir el-Bahari work recovered Middle Kingdom tomb models and reassembled Hatshepsut's shattered statues, was born on this day in 1884.

Mohammed Arkoun, the Algerian-French scholar who applied modern linguistics and history to the study of Islamic thought, was born in Kabylia.

Werner Heisenberg, the German physicist who formulated the uncertainty principle and helped found quantum mechanics, died in Munich, closing one of the most influential careers in twentieth-century physics.