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    1753: The first edition of Species Plantarum by the Swedish scientist Carl von Linn\u00e9 is published. The date is thus regarded as the beginning of botanical nomenclature.
    \n1775: The chemist Frantz Heinrich M\u00fcller founds the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Copenhagen. The young company is initially supported by the state with the promise of a monopoly for 50 years.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1760: Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren, German chemist
    \n1825: Johann Jakob Balmer, Swiss mathematician and physicist
    \n1839: Hilaire de Chardonnet, French chemist and industrialist
    \n1910: J. Allen Hynek, US-American astronomer
    \n1937: Hans Henrik Andersen, Danish nuclear physicist
    \n1947: Jacob Bekenstein, Israeli physicist
    \n1956: Eduard Arzt, Austrian physicist<\/p>\n

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    \n1666: Christoph Notnagel, German mathematician and astronomer
    \n1793: Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae, German natural scientist, chemist and court pharmacist
    \n1870: Gabriel Lam\u00e9, French mathematician and physicist
    \n1914: Hermann Frasch, German-US-American chemist and technologist
    \n1939: Wilhelm Normann, German chemist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1656: Careless handling of charcoal in the house of a baker triggers the city fire in Aachen, in which seven eighths of the city is destroyed.
    \n1800: Anthony Carlisle and William Nicholson manage to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using electric current. Michael Faraday will accordingly refer to this process as electrolysis.
    \n1963: Berthold Seliger launches a three-stage rocket in the Cuxhaven tidelands with a summit height of over 100 kilometres. It is the only rocket developed in post-war Germany that can reach the edge of space.<\/p>\n

    Born
    \n1761: Richard Anthony Salisbury, British botanist
    \n1802: Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German physicist and chemist
    \n1868: Robert Williams Wood, US-American experimental physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1519: Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and universal scholar
    \n1691: Konstantin Ziegra, German physicist and Lutheran theologian
    \n1915: Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, women's rights activist and pacifist, one of the first women in Germany to receive a doctorate.
    \n1925: Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer
    \n1950: Paul Eugen Sieg, German physicist and writer
    \n1979: Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1715: A solar eclipse takes place over southern England, whose shadow orbit was predicted by Edmond Halley. The eclipse is probably the first eclipse for which such a calculation has been attempted.<\/p>\n

    Born
    \n1704: Johann Gottfried Teske, German physicist
    \n1860: Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist
    \n1885: Max Volmer, German chemist
    \n1892: George Paget Thomson, English physicist
    \n1928: Richard Arnowitt, US-American physicist
    \n1930: Horst V\u00f6lz, German physicist and information scientist
    \n1933: Steven Weinberg, US-American physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1790: Johann Jakob Hemmer, meteorologist, physicist and linguist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1747: Philippe-Jean Pelletan, French surgeon
    \n1777: Louis Jacques Th\u00e9nard, French chemist
    \n1813: Johann Florian Heller, Austrian physician and chemist
    \n1879: Leonid Isaakowitsch Mandelstam, Russian physicist
    \n1948: Peter Botschwina, German Professor of Theoretical Chemistry<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n2000: Alexander Iljitsch Achijeser, Russian-Ukrainian theoretical physicist
    \n2007: Karl Schl\u00f6gl, Austrian chemist
    \n2013: Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemist and Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1961: NASA brings Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, into space with Mercury-Redstone 3 as part of the Mercury program.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1752: Johann Tobias Mayer, German physicist
    \n1828: Albert Marth, German astronomer
    \n1833: Lazarus Fuchs, German mathematician1851: Walther Hempel, German chemist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1859: Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician
    \n1892: August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist
    \n1926: Franz von Soxhlet, German agricultural chemist
    \n1930: Otto Nu\u00dfbaumer, Austrian physicist and radio pioneer
    \n1937: Willem Alberda van Ekenstein, Dutch chemist
    \n1940: Georg Graf von Arco, German physicist
    \n2007: Theodore Maiman, US physicist, inventor of the laser<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1642 BC: Venus transit begins at 14:26 (UT) and ends at 21:32 (UT).
    \n1754: Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, who completed her studies on the basis of a special permit from Frederick the Great, passes her doctoral examination at the University of Halle with great success and thus becomes the first doctor in Germany.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1635: Johann Joachim Becher, German chemist and physician
    \n1871: Victor Grignard, French chemist
    \n1890: Friedrich Oehlkers, German botanist
    \n1896: Rolf Sievert, Swedish physicist
    \n1898: Alwin Walther, German engineer and mathematician
    \n1904: Mosh\u00e9 Feldenkrais, physicist, developed the Feldenkrais method.
    \n1906: Andr\u00e9 Weil, French mathematician
    \n1916: Robert Henry Dicke, American physicist and astrophysicist
    \n1922: Ralph Hirschmann, US-American chemist
    \n1929: Paul Christian Lauterbur, US-American chemist and radiologist, Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1673: Werner Rolfinck, German physician, natural scientist and botanist
    \n1744: Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, mathematician and physicist
    \n1782: Wilhelm Bernhard Trommsdorff, German physician, chemist and botanist
    \n1864: Ludolph Christian Treviranus, German botanist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    558: The very flat dome of Hagia Sophia collapses during an earthquake in Constantinople. It will be rebuilt in the next few years.<\/p>\n

    Born
    \n1662: Johann Volckamer, German physician and botanist
    \n1712: Frederik Winter, German physician
    \n1713: Alexis-Claude Clairaut, French mathematician and physicist
    \n1769: Franz Gerhard Wegeler, German physician
    \n1832: Carl Gottfried Neumann, German mathematician
    \n1880: Oskar Perron, German mathematician
    \n1908: Leo Sternbach, US-American chemist
    \n1909: Edwin Herbert Land, US-American physicist
    \n1939: Sidney Altman, Canadian chemist and Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1915: Anne Shymer, US-American chemist
    \n1998: Allan McLeod Cormack, physicist and Nobel Prize winner in medicine 1979
    \n2011: Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and Nobel Laureate<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1254: King Alfonso X. of L\u00e9on gave the state school in Salamanca, which existed since 1218, the rank of a university in the chartered charter.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1770: Johann Bartholom\u00e4us Trommsdorff, German pharmacist
    \n1818 \u2013 Samuel Leonard Tilley, Canadian pharmacist and politician, 3rd Premier of New Brunswick
    \n1842 \u2013 Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist
    \n1859 \u2013 Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer
    \n1887: Richard Karl Theodor Ambronn, german geophysicist
    \n1902 \u2013 Andr\u00e9 Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1947 \u2013 H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1788 \u2013 Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician and botanist
    \n1794 \u2013 Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist
    \n1960 \u2013 J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic
    \n1969 \u2013 Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1816: Frenchman Joseph Nic\u00e9phore Ni\u00e8pce uses a camera obscura to capture images on chlorosilicate paper. But he can not fix the recordings yet.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1610: Johann Michael Fehr, german doctor
    \n1652: Johann Baptist R\u00f6schel, Hungarian physicist and Lutheran theologian
    \n1781: Friedrich Adolph August Struve, Doctor and pharmacist
    \n1850 \u2013 Edward Weston, English-American chemist
    \n1892: Walter Zimmermann, German biologist and botanist
    \n1909: Hilde Levi, German-Danish physicist
    \n1927 \u2013 Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1943 \u2013 Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic
    \n1948: Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1548: Augustin Schurff, German physicist and physician
    \n1850: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, french chemist and physicist
    \n1862: Theodor Bilharz, German physician and natural scientist
    \n1931: Albert A. Michelson, us americal physicist an Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1935 \u2013 Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist
    \n1950 \u2013 Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer
    \n2004: Walter Hugo Stockmeyer, American chemist and co-founder of the journal Macromolecules, died in Norwich.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1954: Texas Instruments introduces the first silicon transistor in Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1746: Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and physicist
    \n1788: Augustin Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer
    \n1847: Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic
    \n1898: Rudolph Sch\u00f6nheimer, german biochemist
    \n1900: Ernst Ising, German mathematician and physicist
    \n1901: John Desmond Bernal, British physicist and science historian
    \n1914: Karl-Heinz Lauterjung, german nuclear physicist
    \n1918 \u2013 Diva Diniz Corr\u00eaa, Brazilian zoologist
    \n1930: George E. Smith, American physicist and Nobel laureate<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1482: Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer
    \n1566: Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist
    \n1787: William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist
    \n1829: Thomas Young, British physicist
    \n1891: Carl Wilhelm von N\u00e4geli, Swiss botanist
    \n1910: Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic
    \n1992: K. G. Ramanathan, Indian mathematician
    \n2003: Milan Vukcevich, Serbian-American chemist and chess player <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    868: In China, the diamond sutra is produced as a wood panel print. This document with texts of Mahayana Buddhism is considered the oldest print book product of history.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1871: Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author
    \n1881 \u2013 Theodore von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer
    \n1911: Ludwig Kratz, german chemist
    \n1914: Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist
    \n1918: Richard Feynman, American physicist and Nobel laureate
    \n1924: Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician
    \n1924: Antony Hewish, British physicist and Nobel laureate
    \n1930: Hans Mohr, German biologist
    \n1933: Dieter He\u00df, German botanist<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1610: Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician
    \n1686: Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician
    \n1871: John Herschel, British astronomer
    \n1887: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic
    \n1891: Alexandre Edmond Becquerel, French physicist
    \n1916: Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist
    \n1934 Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist and academic
    \n1981: Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist
    \n1998: Ernst Ising, German mathematician and physicist
    \n2011: Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1364: The University of Krakow is founded according to the papal permit. The Polish King Kasimir III. Thus building the second university in Central Europe.
    \n1551: The Universidad Nacional Mayor of San Marcos in Lima is founded at the behest of Charles V. It is the oldest continuous university on the American continent.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1798: Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma, dutch chemist, botanist and agricultural scientist
    \n1800: Jean-F\u00e9lix Adolphe Gambart, french astronomer
    \n1803: Justus von Liebig, german chemist
    \n1806: Georg Adolf Erman, german physicist
    \n1823: John Russell Hind, british astronomer
    \n1851: Samuel Dickstein, polish mathematician
    \n1895: William Francis Giauque, american chemist
    \n1896: Erich Correns, German chemist and politician
    \n1906: Maurice Ewing, american physicist
    \n1910: Dorothy Mary Hodgkin, british biochemist, Nobel laureate<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1684: Edme Mariotte, french physicist
    \n1748: Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer and academic
    \n1784: Abraham Trembley, Swiss zoologist and academic
    \n1856: Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
    \n1878: Anselme Payen, French chemist
    \n1910: William Huggins,british astronomer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    births
    \n1588: Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian
    \n1713: Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist
    \n1738: Ernst Gottfried Baldinger, german physician
    \n1795: G\u00e9rard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and chronologist
    \n1840: Gustav von H\u00fcfner, german chemist
    \n1857: Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1865: Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele, german chemist
    \n1905: Kurt Diebner, german atomphysicist
    \n1914: Antonia Ferr\u00edn Moreiras, Spanish mathematician, academic, and astronomer<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1782: Daniel Solander, Swedish-English botanist and phycologist
    \n1826: Christian Kramp, Physician, mathematician and physicist
    \n1832: Georges Cuvier, French zoologist and academic
    \n1866: Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic
    \n1871: Anselme Payen, french chemist, physicist and mathematician
    \n1878: Joseph Henry, american scientist
    \n1926: Friedrich August Bender, german chemist and entrepreneur
    \n1957: Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic
    \n1975: Marguerite Perey, french chemist and physicist
    \n1984: Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, polish mathematician
    \n2005: George Dantzig, American mathematician and academic
    \n2006: Manfred Heindler, austrian physicist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1796: English physician Edward Jenner gave eight-year-old James Phipps the first vaccination against smallpox from a serum of cowpox virus developed by him<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1679: Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and mathematician
    \n1701: William Emerson, English mathematician
    \n1725: Friedrich Anton von Heynitz, german physicist
    \n1828: Adalbert von Waltenhofen, austrian physicist and electrical engineer
    \n1832: Rudolf Lipschitz, german mathematician
    \n1837: George Shoobridge Carr, british mathematician
    \n1863: John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal
    \n1886: Ernst Sp\u00e4th, austrian chemist
    \n1897: Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist
    \n1899: Pierre Auger, french physicist
    \n1899: Charlotte Auerbach, German-Jewish Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1734: Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist and physician
    \n1761: Thomas Simpson, british mathematician
    \n1893: Ernst Kummer, German mathematician
    \n1899: Lars Fredrik Nilson, swedish chemist
    \n1945: Isis Pogson, English astronomer and meteorologist
    \n2015: Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1355: Emperor Charles IV confirms the university status of the University of Perugia, founded on 8 September 1308 by Pope Clement V.
    \n1890: Electricity plants Reichenhall, which are operated by hydroelectric power, are the first AC power plant in Germany to operate.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1720: Maximilian Hell, hungarian priest and astronomer
    \n1857: Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer
    \n1859: Pierre Curie, french physicist and Nobel laureate
    \n1891: Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic
    \n1900: Ida Rhodes, American mathematician
    \n1903: Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist
    \n1910: Theodor F\u00f6rster, german physics chemist
    \n1913: Heinz Haber, german astrophysicist
    \n1925: Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist and biologist
    \n1949: Robert S.J. Sparks, English geologist and academic
    \n1951: Frank Wilczek, American mathematician and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1953: Athene Donald, English physicist and academic<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1903: Eugen Lucius, german chemist, industrialist and patron
    \n1926: Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist
    \n1991: Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1810: The two book volumes on the color theory of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are published by T\u00fcbingen's Cotta'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung. His essay Beytr\u00e4ge zur Optik is among others.
    \n1919: In Yerevan, at this time capital of the Democratic Republic of Armenia, the State University Yerevan is founded.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1718: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philanthropist
    \n1763: Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist, born in Saint-Andr\u00e9-d''H\u00e9bertot. He discovered beryllium and chromium, and described many separations.
    \n1821: Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev, Russian mathematician
    \n1845: \u00c9lie Metchnikoff, Ukrainian-French biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1852: Eduard Zacharias, German botanist
    \n1888: Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker
    \n1925: Nancy Roman, American astronomer
    \n1930: Karl Heinz Beckurts, German physicist and manager
    \n1950: Johannes Georg Bednorz, German physicist<\/p>\n

    death
    \n1682: Andreas Concius, German mathematician
    \n1830: Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist
    \n1940: Otto Dimroth, german chemist
    \n1946: Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman
    \n1947: Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n2013: Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1861: The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell introduces the first color photo in a lecture at the Royal Institution.
    \n1969: In the course of the Venera Venera missions, the Venera 6 state probe reaches the planet Venus. It transmits data for 51 minutes before destroying atmospheric pressure.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1749: Edward Jenner, English physician and microbiologist
    \n1763: Pierre-Auguste Adet, french physician and chemist
    \n1818: Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician
    \n1836: Joseph Norman Lockyer, british astrophysicist
    \n1860: Charlotte Barnum, American mathematician and social activist
    \n1897: Odd Hassel, norwegian chemist
    \n1909: Julius Sumner Miller, American physicist and academic
    \n1926: Franz Sondheimer, german chemist<\/p>\n

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    \n1765: Alexis-Claude Clairaut, french mathematician and physicist
    \n1916: Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist
    \n2001: Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician
    \n2014: Gerald M. Edelman, American physician and Nobel laureate<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    44 BC: The comet C \/ -43 K1 (comet Caesar) is discovered in China. In July of that same year, he was visible in Rome, and was regarded by the people as the divine appearance of the soul of the murdered Gaius Iulius Caesar, and was used by his adoptive son Octavianus, the later Emperor Augustus, to theatrical theological propaganda.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1048: Omar Chajjam, Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet
    \n1711: Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician
    \n1777: John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist
    \n1778: Andrew Ure, British physician, professor of natural history and chemistry
    \n1783: Jabbo Oltmanns, Ostfriesian mathematician, astronomer and professor of applied mathematics
    \n1824: Wilhelm Hofmeister, German botanist
    \n1850: Oliver Heaviside, British mathematician and physicist
    \n1889: Thomas Midgley, american chemist and inventor
    \n1901: Robert Ochsenfeld, german physicist
    \n1901: Vincent du Vigneaud, american biochemist
    \n1926: Kurt Hirschhorn, American human geneticist
    \n1941: Malcolm Longair, Scottish astronomer, physicist, and academic<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1675: Stanis\u0142aw Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian
    \n1912: Eduard Strasburger, Polish-German botanist
    \n1922: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1971: Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist
    \n2004: Arnold Orville Beckman, american chemist
    \n2007: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel laureate
    \n2014: Hans-Peter D\u00fcrr, German physicist and essayist
    \n2014: Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
    \n2015: Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    861: On a temple site in N\u014dgata on the Japanese island of Ky\u016bsh\u016b is a meteorite. The case of the chondrite is observed and the piece is kept in a shrine for posterity.
    \n1780: The \"Dark Day\" causes uncertainty in New England. The cause of the unusual darkness can never be finally clarified.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1752: Philipp Ludwig Wittwer, deutscher Mediziner
    \n1773: Arthur Aikin, englischer Chemiker, Mineraloge und Autor
    \n1841: Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold, deutscher Chemiker und Physiker
    \n1857: John Jacob Abel, US-amerikanischer Biochemiker und Pharmakologe
    \n1867: Otto Appel, deutscher Phytomediziner
    \n1901: Otto Ambros, deutscher Chemiker, verurteilter Kriegsverbrecher und Wehrwirtschaftsf\u00fchrer
    \n1914: Max Ferdinand Perutz, britischer Chemiker und Nobelpreistr\u00e4ger 1962
    \n1918: Abraham Pais, niederl\u00e4ndischer Physiker
    \n1927: Serge Lang, US-amerikanischer Mathematiker<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n2009 \u2013 Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Births
    \n1537: Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist
    \n1834: Albert Niemann, german chemist
    \n1860: Eduard Buchner, german chemist and Nobel laureate
    \n1900: Erika Cremer, german physics chemist
    \n1901: Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author
    \n1908: Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist and author
    \n1913: Isaak Pomerantschuk, russian physicist
    \n1945: Anton Zeilinger, austrian quantum physicist<\/p>\n

    Deaths
    \n1722: S\u00e9bastien Vaillant, French botanist and mycologist
    \n1782: William Emerson, English mathematician and academic
    \n1793: Charles Bonnet, Naturalist and philosopher
    \n1947: Philipp Eduard Anton von Leonberg, german physicist and Nobel laureate
    \n1959: Jakob Joos, german physicist
    \n1967: Leonhard Grebe, german physicist
    \n1982: Merle Antony Tuve, american physicist and geophysicist
    \n2002: Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and academic
    \n2007: Stanley Miller, american biologist and chemist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    births
    \n1792: Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and physicist
    \n1799: Mary Anning, English paleontologist
    \n1850: Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist
    \n1921: Andrei Sacharow, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1923: Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic
    \n1934: Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1936: G\u00fcnter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1945: Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1670: Niccol\u00f2 Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist
    \n1786: Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist
    \n1854: Bernhard von Lindenau, German astronomer
    \n1894: August Kundt, German physicist
    \n1911: Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic
    \n1919: Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist
    \n1935: Hugo de Vries, Dutch biologist
    \n1953: Ernst Zermelo, German mathematician
    \n1964: James Franck, German-American physicist
    \n1970: E. L. Grant Watson, English-Australian biologist and author<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    births
    \n1783: William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor
    \n1848: Hermann Schubert, German mathematician
    \n1905: Bodo von Borries, German physicist, co-inventor of the electron microscope
    \n1912: Herbert Charles Brown, British chemist, Nobel laureate
    \n1920: Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist
    \n1927: George A. Olah, Hungarian-American chemist
    \n1933: Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician and academic
    \n1946: Michael Green, English physicist and academic
    \n1946: Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer
    \n1954: Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1666: Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician
    \n1868: Julius Pl\u00fccker, German mathematician and physicist
    \n1956: Walther Kossel, German physicist
    \n1967: Josip Plemelj, Yugoslav mathematician
    \n1983: Albert Claude, Belgian physician, Nobel laureate
    \n1997: Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n1998: Jos\u00e9 Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer
    \n2010: Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    births
    \n1606: Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher
    \n1707: Carl von Linne, Sweden Naturalist in R\u00e4shult \/ Sm\u00e5land
    \n1848: Otto Lilienthal, German pioneer of the gliding and muscle power flight
    \n1887: Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist
    \n1908: John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate
    \n1915: Clyde E. Wiegand, American physicist, co-discoverer of anti-proton
    \n1923: Irving Millman, American virologist and microbiologist
    \n1925: Joshua Lederberg, American Hereditary researcher, 1958 Nobel prize for medicine
    \n1940: Cora Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic
    \n1942: Robert Bergman, American chemist<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1691: Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker
    \n1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy,French mathematician
    \n1895: Franz Ernst Neumann, German physicist, is regarded as one of the founders of theoretical physics
    \n2015: John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1681: The Canal du Midi, built according to plans by the engineer Pierre-Paul Riquet, is officially opened in the south of France. It links Toulouse with the Mediterranean
    \n1844: Samuel F. Morse sends the first telegram to Morse Code of Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. The content of the message is \"What hath God wrought?\" <\/p>\n

    births
    \n1544: William Gilbert, English physician, physicist, and astronomer
    \n1686: Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, German physicist
    \n1803: Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist
    \n1894: Hu Xiansu, Chinese botanist
    \n1914: Herbert Lawrence Anderson, american nuclear physicist<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1543: Nikolaus Kopernikus, Polish astronomer
    \n1734: Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist
    \n1843: Sylvestre Fran\u00e7ois Lacroix, French mathematician and academic<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1842: The Austrian physicist Christian Doppler presents in Prague, in front of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, his article on the color light of the double stars and some other stars of heaven, prognosticating the doppler-effect.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1815: Giovanni Caselli, Italian physicist
    \n1841: Louis Aronstein, german chemist
    \n1865: Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate
    \n1868: Charles Hitchcock Adams, American chemist, wood merchant and amateur astronomer
    \n1894: Jakob Christoph Georg Joos, German physicist
    \n1921: Jack Steinberger, American physicist and Nobel laureate
    \n1944: Robert MacPherson, American mathematician and academic<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n 986: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Muslim astronomer
    \n1555: Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer
    \n1632: Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher
    \n1772: Johann Gottfried Teske, German physicist
    \n1789: Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist and physician
    \n1801: Nicolai Jacob Wilse, Norwegian natural scientist
    \n1939: Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer and academic
    \n1981: Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1970: As the first civilian commercial aircraft, a Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 of the Chief Constructor Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev reached Mach 2.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1667: Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician
    \n1669: S\u00e9bastien Vaillant, French botanist and mycologist
    \n1814: Heinrich Gei\u00dfler, German physicist and inventor
    \n1821: Amalie Dietrich, German botanist and zoologist
    \n1826: Richard Christopher Carrington, British astronomer
    \n1929: Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer
    \n1951: Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut, founded Sally Ride Science<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1799: James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish linguist, biologist, and judge
    \n1888: Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist
    \n1938: John Jacob Abel, American biochemist and pharmacologist
    \n1997: Manfred von Ardenne, German natural scientist
    \n1999: Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer
    \n2004: Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer
    \n2015: Robert Kraft, American astronomer and academic<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    669 BC A royal servant holds a solar eclipse observed in the region around Babylon on a cuneiform tablet.
    \n1961: With the help of the poly-U experiment, Heinrich Matthaei demonstrates for the first time that a \"code word\" (the codon UUU) for an amino acid (here: phenylalanine) is in the DNA.<\/p>\n

    births
    \n1623: William Petty, British physicist and economist
    \n1840: Lars Fredrik Nilson, Swedish chemist
    \n1897: John Cockcroft, English physicist
    \n1907: Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1712: Johann Baptist R\u00f6schel, Hungarian physicist and theologian
    \n1910: Robert Koch, German bacteriologist
    \n1945: Pieter van Romburgh, Dutch chemist and university professor
    \n1987: John Howard Northrop, American chemist
    \n1988: Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n2009: Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist
    \n2012: Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician
    \n2012: David Rimoin, Canadian-American geneticist and academic<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    births
    \n1676: Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic
    \n1836: Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist
    \n1872: Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer
    \n1879: Milutin Milankovi\u0107, Serbian astrophysicist
    \n1912: Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer
    \n1917: Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician
    \n1930: Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist
    \n1942: Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1773: Georg Gottlob Richter, German physician
    \n1905: Friedrich Junge, German biologist
    \n1910: Emil Zuckerkandl, Austrian physician
    \n1912: Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist
    \n1980: Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician and academic
    \n2000: George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer
    \n2000: Donald Watts Davies, British physicist
    \n2001: Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher
    \n2003: Ilya Prigogine, russisch-belgischer Chemiker, Nobelpreistr\u00e4ger<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    births
    \n1675: Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher
    \n1716: Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist and mineralogist
    \n1780: Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist
    \n1794: Johann Heinrich von M\u00e4dler (German astronomer)
    \n1859: Hugo Hergesell, German meteorologist and geophysicist
    \n1897: Johannes Winkler (German space pioneer) in Bad Carlsruhe. One of his pioneering achievements was the construction of the first European liquid rocket.
    \n1905: Kurt Schwabe, German electrochemist
    \n1929: Peter Higgs, British physicist
    \n1932: Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
    \n1948: Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1586: Adam Lonitzer, German naturalist
    \n1660: Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician
    \n1829: Humphry Davy (british chemist)
    \n1896: Gabriel Auguste Daubr\u00e9e, French geologist and academic
    \n1897: Julius Sachs, german botanist
    \n1908: William Arnold Anthony, american physicist
    \n1996: Antonin Mrkos, Czech astronomer
    \n2014: Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    births
    \n1423: Georg von Peuerbach, German mathematician and astronomer
    \n1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist
    \n1800: Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, deutscher Mathematiker
    \n1814: Eug\u00e8ne Charles Catalan, belgischer Mathematiker
    \n1869: Grace Andrews, American mathematician
    \n1878: Raymond Smith Dugan, US-amerikanischer Astronom
    \n1879: Anne Shymer, US-amerikanische Chemikerin
    \n1908: Hannes Alfv\u00e9n, schwedischer Physiker, Nobelpreistr\u00e4ger
    \n1909: Norris Bradbury, US-amerikanischer Physiker
    \n1912: Julius Axelrod, US-amerikanischer Biochemiker, Nobelpreistr\u00e4ger
    \n1912: Erich Bagge, German physicist and academic
    \n1927: Joan Birman, American mathematician
    \n1955: Jacqueline McGlade, English-Canadian biologist, ecologist, and academic<\/p>\n

    deaths
    \n1916: Adolph Frank, deutscher Chemiker
    \n1926: Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist
    \n1927: Vincenzo Cerulli, italienischer Astronom
    \n1946: Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist
    \n1992: Antoni Zygmund, US-amerikanischer Mathematiker
    \n2006: David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist and academic
    \n2009: Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel
    \n2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
    \n2012: Andrew Fielding Huxley, britischer Biophysiker und Physiologe, Nobel Prize laureate<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1912: Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-US-American physicist
    \n1931: John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist, Nobel Prize 1972<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1009: Ibn Yunus, Egyptian astronomer and mathematician
    \n1867: Th\u00e9ophile-Jules Pelouze, French chemist
    \n1918: Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist
    \n1938: Ludwig Hermann, German chemist and entrepreneur
    \n1965: Dankwart Otto Heinrich Emil Rudolf Ackermann, German physiologist and chemist
    \n1976: Jacques Monod, French biochemist
    \n2006: Raymond Davis junior, US chemist, Nobel laureate in physics<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

    See more details<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t • <\/b><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>

<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n\t \t\t\t\n <\/table>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\r\n

NMR Periodic Table of Elements<\/h2>\r\n

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\u00a0<\/td>\r\nI<\/td>\r\nII<\/td>\r\nIIIb<\/td>\r\nIVb<\/td>\r\nVb<\/td>\r\nVIb<\/td>\r\nVIIb<\/td>\r\nVIIIb<\/td>\r\nVIIIb<\/td>\r\nVIIIb<\/td>\r\nIb<\/td>\r\nIIb<\/td>\r\nIII<\/td>\r\nIV<\/td>\r\nV<\/td>\r\nVI<\/td>\r\nVII<\/td>\r\nVIII<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
K<\/td>\r\nH<\/a><\/td>\r\n\u00a0<\/td>\r\nHe<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
L<\/td>\r\nLi<\/a><\/td>\r\nBe<\/a><\/td>\r\n\u00a0<\/td>\r\nB<\/a><\/td>\r\nC<\/a><\/td>\r\nN<\/a><\/td>\r\nO<\/a><\/td>\r\nF<\/a><\/td>\r\nNe<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
M<\/td>\r\nNa<\/a><\/td>\r\nMg<\/a><\/td>\r\nAl<\/a><\/td>\r\nSi<\/a><\/td>\r\nP<\/a><\/td>\r\nS<\/a><\/td>\r\nCl<\/a><\/td>\r\nAr<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
N<\/td>\r\nK<\/a><\/td>\r\nCa<\/a><\/td>\r\nSc<\/a><\/td>\r\nTi<\/a><\/td>\r\nV<\/a><\/td>\r\nCr<\/a><\/td>\r\nMn<\/a><\/td>\r\nFe<\/a><\/td>\r\nCo<\/a><\/td>\r\nNi<\/a><\/td>\r\nCu<\/a><\/td>\r\nZn<\/a><\/td>\r\nGa<\/a><\/td>\r\nGe<\/a><\/td>\r\nAs<\/a><\/td>\r\nSe<\/a><\/td>\r\nBr<\/a><\/td>\r\nKr<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
O<\/td>\r\nRb<\/a><\/td>\r\nSr<\/a><\/td>\r\nY<\/a><\/td>\r\nZr<\/a><\/td>\r\nNb<\/a><\/td>\r\nMo<\/a><\/td>\r\nTc<\/a><\/td>\r\nRu<\/a><\/td>\r\nRh<\/a><\/td>\r\nPd<\/a><\/td>\r\nAg<\/a><\/td>\r\nCd<\/a><\/td>\r\nIn<\/a><\/td>\r\nSn<\/a><\/td>\r\nSb<\/a><\/td>\r\nTe<\/a><\/td>\r\nI<\/a><\/td>\r\nXe<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
P<\/td>\r\nCs<\/a><\/td>\r\nBa<\/a><\/td>\r\nLa<\/a><\/td>\r\nHf<\/a><\/td>\r\nTa<\/a><\/td>\r\nW<\/a><\/td>\r\nRe<\/a><\/td>\r\nOs<\/a><\/td>\r\nIr<\/a><\/sup><\/td>\r\nPt<\/a><\/td>\r\nAu<\/a><\/td>\r\nHg<\/a><\/td>\r\nTl<\/a><\/td>\r\nPb<\/a><\/td>\r\nBi<\/a><\/td>\r\nPo<\/a><\/td>\r\nAt<\/td>\r\nRn<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Q<\/td>\r\nFr<\/td>\r\nRa<\/td>\r\nAc<\/td>\r\nRf<\/td>\r\nDb<\/td>\r\nSg<\/td>\r\nBh<\/td>\r\nHs<\/td>\r\nMt<\/td>\r\nDs<\/td>\r\nRg<\/td>\r\nCn<\/td>\r\nUut<\/td>\r\nFl<\/td>\r\nUup<\/td>\r\nLv<\/td>\r\nUus<\/td>\r\nUuo<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

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*<\/sup>Lanthanides<\/td>\r\nCe<\/td>\r\nPr<\/a><\/td>\r\nNd<\/a><\/td>\r\nPm<\/td>\r\nSm<\/a><\/td>\r\nEu<\/a><\/td>\r\nGd<\/a><\/td>\r\nTb<\/a><\/td>\r\nDy<\/a><\/td>\r\nHo<\/a><\/td>\r\nEr<\/a><\/td>\r\nTm<\/a><\/td>\r\nYb<\/a><\/td>\r\nLu<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
**<\/sup>Actinides<\/td>\r\nTh<\/td>\r\nPa<\/a><\/td>\r\nU<\/a><\/td>\r\nNp<\/td>\r\nPu<\/td>\r\nAm<\/td>\r\nCm<\/td>\r\nBk<\/td>\r\nCf<\/td>\r\nEs<\/td>\r\nFm<\/td>\r\nMd<\/td>\r\nNo<\/td>\r\nLr<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n
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Sources:<\/strong><\/span>
IUPAC Pure and Applied Chemistry 73, 1795\u20131818
Bruker Almanac 2012<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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