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    1774: The scholar Joseph Priestley describes oxygen for the first time, but does not recognize it as a chemical element.<\/p>\n

    Born
    \n1744: Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French biologist
    \n1817: Joseph Henry Gilbert, British agricultural chemist
    \n1818: Maria Mitchell, US astronomer and women's rights activist
    \n1852: Eilhard Wiedemann, German physicist
    \n1857: Paul Harzer, German astronomer
    \n1885: George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist
    \n1889: Walther Gerlach, German physicist
    \n1905: Helen Hogg, Canadian astronomer
    \n1912: Frank K. Edmondson, US-American astronomer
    \n1924: Georges Charpak, French physicist
    \n1936: William D. Hamilton, English biologist
    \n1959: Dieter Jahn, German biochemist and microbiologist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1795: Clas Bjerkander, Swedish naturalist
    \n1896: William Grove, British lawyer and natural scientist
    \n1936: William D. Hamilton, British biologist
    \n1944: Albert Lautman, French mathematician and philosopher
    \n1967: Richard Johann Kuhn, Austrian-German chemist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1972: August Karolus, German physicist
    \n1972: Erwin Madelung, German physicist
    \n1975: Reiji Okazaki, Japanese biologist
    \n1982: Otto Bayer, German chemist
    \n1984: Hans Wittich, German mathematician
    \n1993: Klaus Oswatitsch, Austrian physicist
    \n1996: Tadeus Reichstein, Swiss chemist
    \n1999: Paris Pi\u015fmi\u015f, Turkish-Armenian astronomer
    \n2004: Philip Hauge Abelson, US-American physicist and chemist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1776: Friedrich Stromeyer, German chemist
    \n1788: Leopold Gmelin, German chemist, in G\u00f6ttingen
    \n1816: Wilhelm B\u00fcchner, German pharmacist, chemist, factory owner and politician
    \n1820: John Tyndall, Irish physicist
    \n1899: Paul Eugen Sieg, German physicist and writer of technical futuristic novels
    \n1902: Mina Rees, US-American mathematician
    \n1941: Jules Hoffmann, French biologist of Luxembourg descent and Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1844: Jean Pierre Joseph d''Arcet, French chemist, died in Paris. Among other things, he developed the process for separating gold and silver with the aid of sulphuric acid.
    \n1866: Peter Friedrich Arndt, German mathematician
    \n1922: Karl Berthold Hofmann, Austrian chemist and physician
    \n2016: Achmed Zewail: Egyptian Nobel Laureate, Founder of Femtochemistry<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1725: Anton Joseph Carl, German natural scientist and physician
    \n1884: Josias Braun-Blanquet, Swiss botanist
    \n1893: Walter Gordon, German physicist
    \n1898: Konrad Gauckler, German natural scientist
    \n1902: Achim Gercke, German biologist
    \n1915: Arthur Birch, Australian chemist
    \n1959: Tanaka Koichi, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1961: Jochen Feldmann, German physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1770: Guillaume Fran\u00e7ois Rouelle, French chemist
    \n1806: Michel Adanson, French botanist
    \n870: Pompejus Bolley, German chemist
    \n1917: Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician
    \n1922: Maty\u00e1\u0161 Lerch, Czech mathematician
    \n1933: Otto Stapf, Austrian botanist
    \n1942: Richard Willst\u00e4tter, German chemist
    \n1959: Jakob Nielsen, Danish mathematician<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1805: William Rowan Hamilton, British mathematician
    \n1834: John Venn, British mathematician
    \n1843: Leo Gans, German chemist
    \n1889: Ludwig Ansch\u00fctz, German chemist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1788: Johann Wilhelm Baumer, German physicist, physician and mineralogist
    \n1874: Otto Hesse, German mathematician
    \n1925: Friedrich Auerbach, German chemist
    \n1929: Carl Auer von Welsbach, Austrian chemist and entrepreneur
    \n1945: Gerhard Gentzen, German mathematician
    \n1948: Mileva Mari\u0107, Austro-Hungarian mathematician, first wife of Albert Einstein<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1631: Adam Adamandy Kocha\u0144ski, Polish mathematician
    \n1802: Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician
    \n1858: Hermann Kobold, German astronomer
    \n1866: Carl Dietrich Harries, German chemist
    \n1873: Kurt Arndt, German chemist
    \n1920: Eleonore Trefftz, German mathematician and physicist
    \n1923: Jack D. Dunitz, British chemist
    \n1925: Albert Eschenmoser, Swiss chemist
    \n1946: Shirley Ann Jackson, American physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1614: Matthias Anom\u00e4us, German pedagogue, mathematician and physician
    \n1872: Charles Eug\u00e8ne Delaunay, French mathematician and astronomer
    \n1905: Julius Ernst Wilhelm Stinde, German chemist, writer and journalist died in Olsberg.
    \n1910: Julius Peter Christian Petersen, Danish mathematician
    \n1957: Heinrich Otto Wieland died in Munich. The German chemist received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1927 \"for his research on the composition of bile acid and related substances\".
    \n1983: Bart J. Bok, American astronomer
    \n2003: Heinz Krekeler, German chemist and politician
    \n2005: Hans Faillard, German Professor of Biochemistry and Physiological Chemistry<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1845: The Russian Geographical Society is founded as a scholarly society in Saint Petersburg.
    \n1991: Tim Berners-Lee presents the project World Wide Web as a hypertext service on the Internet in a contribution to the newsgroup alt.hypertext.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1667: Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
    \n1741: John Wilson, British mathematician
    \n1766: William Hyde Wollaston, British physician, physicist and chemist
    \n1795: Heinrich Rose, German mineralogist and analytical chemist
    \n1895: Johann Frers, German chemist
    \n1947: Rainer Altherr, German mineralogist, geochemist and petrologist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1688: Georg Samuel D\u00f6rffel, German theologian and astronomer
    \n1753: Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German physicist
    \n1816: Antonio Cagnoli, Italian astronomer
    \n1879: Johann von Lamont, Scottish-German astronomer and physicist
    \n1912: Ernst Becker, German astronomer
    \n1925: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician
    \n1937: Alfred Wilm, German chemist and metallurgist
    \n1998: Andr\u00e9 Weil, French mathematician<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1912: During an ascent in a balloon, the physicist Victor Franz Hess notices a change he calls cosmic radiation. This makes him the discoverer of cosmic radiation.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1802: Germain Henri Hess, Russian chemist of Swiss origin
    \n1811: Elias Loomis, US-American mathematician, meteorologist and astronomer
    \n1878: Wilhelm Ruhland, German botanist
    \n1889: L\u00e9on Brillouin, French physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1782: Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, German chemist
    \n1848: J\u00f6ns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist, is considered the father of modern chemistry.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1576: The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe notes the laying of the foundation stone of his observatory Uraniborg on the island of Ven.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1748: Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German botanist, zoologist and chemist
    \n1754: Hip\u00f3lito Ruiz L\u00f3pez, Spanish botanist
    \n1772: Wilhelm August Lampadius, German metallurgist
    \n1846: Alfred Mathieu Giard, French biologist
    \n1901: Ernest O. Lawrence, US-American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize winner, inventor of the cyclotron
    \n1902: Paul Dirac, British physicist, Nobel Prize winner and co-founder of quantum physics
    \n1914: Paul Ledoux, Belgian astronomer and astrophysicist
    \n1922: Alberto Granado, Cuban biochemist, Che Guevara's travel companion
    \n1928: Martha Chase, US Molecular Biologist
    \n1931: Roger Penrose, British mathematician and theoretical physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1694: Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher, linguist and theologian, logician and mathematician
    \n1897: Victor Meyer, German chemist
    \n1908: Alfred Mathieu Giard, French biologist
    \n1942: Rudolf Abel, German bacteriologist
    \n1951: Charles Hitchcock Adams, US-American chemist, timber merchant and amateur astronomer
    \n2007: Julius Wess, Austrian physicist, co-discoverer of supersymmetry
    \n2012: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, US experimental nuclear physicist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1896: The aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal crashes during a flight in St\u00f6lln on the Gollenberg in Havelland and dies the following day of his injuries.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1685: Claude-Joseph Geoffroy, French botanist, mycologist and pharmacist
    \n1776: Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro. Italian chemist and physicist born in Turin.
    \n1846: Ludwig Darmstaedter, German chemist and science historian.
    \n1850: Johann B\u00fcttikofer, Swiss zoologist
    \n1861: Dorothea Klumpke, US-American astronomer
    \n1861: Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz, German astronomer
    \n1892: S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician and librarian
    \n1896: Erich H\u00fcckel born in Berlin. His achievements include the quantetheoretical investigation of benzene (H\u00fcckel rule) and work in the field of electrochemistry (Debye-H\u00fcckel theory).
    \n1911: William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1942: Ernst-G\u00fcnter Afting, German biochemist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1899: Edward Frankland, English chemist, died in Goola (Norway) during a holiday. His work laid the foundation for the theory of valence electrons.
    \n1969: Cecil Powell, British atomic physicist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1992: Friedrich Wille, German mathematician and university teacher<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1602: Gilles Personne de Roberval, French mathematician
    \n1673: Johann Konrad Dippel, German alchemist, physician and theologian
    \n1797: Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, German botanist
    \n1800: Otto August Rosenberger, German astronomer
    \n1852: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Kastner, French physicist, inventor of the pyrophone
    \n1859: Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician
    \n1884: Robert Wichard Pohl, German physicist
    \n1902: Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1913: Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1925: Stanislav Brebera, Czech chemist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1802: Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus, German physicist and natural philosopher
    \n1846: Christian Ludwig Ideler, German astronomer
    \n1895: Felix Hoppe-Seyler, German chemist and physiologist
    \n1915: Henry Moseley, British physicist
    \n1929: Pierre Fatou, French mathematician
    \n1931: Richard Wettstein, Austrian botanist
    \n1941: Mario Amadori, Italian pharmaceutical chemist and university lecturer
    \n1949: Homer Burton Adkins, US-American chemist
    \n1955: Hans Andersag, German chemist
    \n1960: Oswald Veblen, US-American mathematician
    \n1976: Josef Mattauch, German physicist
    \n1979: Walther Gerlach, German physicist
    \n2002: Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician, pioneer of programming languages
    \n2005: Jaroslav Kouteck\u00fd, Czech Professor of Physical Chemistry<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1713: Christlieb Ehregott Gellert, German metallurgist and mineralogist
    \n1787: Johann Gottlieb N\u00f6rrenberg, German physicist
    \n1836: Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician and chemist
    \n1843: Ernst Becker, German astronomer
    \n1856: Hermann Ernst Ludwig Viktor Ambronn, German botanist and physicist
    \n1860: Ludwig Heck, German biologist and zoo director
    \n1860: Arthur von Weinberg, German chemist and entrepreneur
    \n1861: Albert Boehringer, German chemical and pharmaceutical entrepreneur (Boehringer Ingelheim)
    \n1905: Erwin Chargaff, American biochemist and writer
    \n1912: Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer
    \n1926: Aaron Klug, British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1931: Daniele Amati, Italian theoretical particle physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1577: Hartmann Beyer, German mathematician, theologian and reformer
    \n1578: Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician and astronomer
    \n1854: Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist
    \n1892: Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and engineer
    \n1921: Emil Knoevenagel, German chemist
    \n1955: Robert Williams Wood, US-American experimental physicist
    \n1957: Rudolf Weigl, Polish biologist and physician
    \n1961: Ion Barbu, Romanian writer and mathematician
    \n1972: Max Theiler, US-American biologist
    \n1973: Karl Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1995: Alonzo Church, US-American mathematician
    \n2001: Rudolf Pressberger, Austrian astronomer and technician<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1801: Carl August von Steinheil, German physicist, astronomer, optician and entrepreneur
    \n1862: Martin Brendel, German astronomer
    \n1875: Phokion Nao\u00fam, German explosives chemist
    \n1887: Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger, Austrian physicist and science theorist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1897: Otto von Struve, Russian-US-American astronomer
    \n1919: Margaret Burbidge, British astrophysicist
    \n1929: Hans-Dieter S\u00f6ling, German biochemist
    \n1957: Martin Aeschlimann, Swiss physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1865: William Jackson Hooker, British botanist
    \n1900: James Edward Keeler, US-American astrophysicist
    \n1921: Caspar Isenkrahe, German mathematician, physicist and natural philosopher
    \n1927: Carl Pulfrich, German physicist and optician
    \n1946: Alfred Stock, German chemist
    \n1955: James Batcheller Sumner, US biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1957: Ludwig Kratz, German chemist
    \n1978: Gregor Wentzel, German physicist
    \n1979: Ernst Boris Chain, British biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1989: William B. Shockley, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n2007: Ralph Alpher, US-American physicist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1596: David Fabricius is the first to notice the variability of the star Omikron Ceti in the constellation Walvis, which changes its brightness over a period of 331 days, whereby it becomes clearly visible at the maximum and invisible to the naked eye at the minimum. Because of this strange behavior he calls the star Mira, the \"miraculous one\".<\/p>\n

    Born
    \n1625: Erasmus Bartholin, Danish mathematician, physicist and medical doctor
    \n1814: Anders Jonas \u00c5ngstr\u00f6m, Swedish astronomer and physicist
    \n1815: Eduard August von Regel, German gardener and botanist
    \n1857: Henri Pittier, Swiss natural scientist and biologist
    \n1861: Herbert H. Turner, British astronomer and seismologist
    \n1867: Arthur Eichengr\u00fcn, German chemist
    \n1872: Richard Willst\u00e4tter, German chemist
    \n1905: Friedrich Franz Bolle, German botanist
    \n1927: Dietrich Falke, German medical microbiologist and professor<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1784: Jean Fran\u00e7ois Cl\u00e9ment Morand, French chemist, mineralogist and physician
    \n1822: Jean-Robert Argand, mathematician
    \n1896: Ludwig Seidel, German mathematician and astronomer
    \n1907: Hermann Carl Vogel, German astronomer and physicist
    \n1917: Eduard Buchner, German chemist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1688: Johann Leonhard Rost, German poet and astronomer
    \n1777:Hans Christian \u00d8rsted, Danish physicist and chemist born in Rudk\u00f8bing. He isolated piperidine, produced aluminium and discovered the magnetic effect of electric current.
    \n1842: Jean Gaston Darboux, French mathematician
    \n1850: W. W. Rouse Ball, English mathematician and mathematical historian
    \n1861: Eugen Schilling, German chemist and industrialist, born in Munich.
    \n1890: Bruno Emil Tesch, German chemist, entrepreneur and war criminal, born in Berlin. In the Second World War he delivered large quantities of Zyklon B to Auschwitz in full consciousness to kill people with it. In 1946 he was sentenced to death and executed in the Testa trial.
    \n1924: Robert Kemp Adair, US-American physicist
    \n1933:Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize winner, born in Winterthur. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his pioneering work in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.<\/p>\n

    Died
    \n330 BC: Kiddinu, Chaldean astronomer and mathematician
    \n1941:Paul Sabatier, French chemist and Nobel laureate, died in Toulouse. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1912 for his work on the hydrogenation of organic compounds on finely divided metals.
    \n1958: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, died in Paris. In 1935 he and his wife received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the synthesis of a radionuclide by bombarding aluminium with alpha particles.
    \n2012: Sergei Kapitsa, Russian physicist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1744: Conrad Moench, German pharmacist, chemist and botanist
    \n1865: Hantaro Nagaoka, Japanese physicist
    \n1887: Paul Willard Merrill, US-American astronomer
    \n1892: Louis Victor de Broglie, French physicist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1893: Leslie John Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and mathematician
    \n1896: Gerty Cori, US biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1915: Amron Harry Katz, US-American physicist and aerial reconnaissance specialist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1758: Pierre Bouguer, French geodesist and astronomer
    \n1798: Edward Waring, British mathematician
    \n1852: Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist
    \n1911: Albert Ladenburg, German chemist
    \n1923: Hans Friedrich Geitel, German physicist
    \n1953: Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist
    \n1982: Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n2004: Sune Bergstr\u00f6m, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1736: Valentin Rose the Elder, German Pharmacist and Assessor
    \n1845: Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg physicist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1892: Paul Hatvani, Austrian writer, chemist and translator
    \n1904: Wendell Meredith Stanley, US-American chemist, biochemist, virologist and Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1705: Jakob I. Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and physicist
    \n1836: Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician
    \n1887: Julius von Haast, German geologist, natural scientist and explorer
    \n1912: Carl Pr\u00fcssing, German chemist and cement manufacturer
    \n1920: Joseph Norman Lockyer, British astrophysicist
    \n1957: Irving Langmuir, US-American chemist, physicist and Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1699: Bernard de Jussieu, French botanist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1807: Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, German philosopher, mathematician and natural scientist
    \n1886: Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist
    \n1910: Julian Treumann, German chemist
    \n1978: Hans Wolter, German physicist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1868: During the observation of the total solar eclipse of 18 August 1868 in India, the French astronomer Pierre Jules C\u00e9sar Janssen discovered the chemical element helium.
    \n1877: The US astronomer Asaph Hall discovers the moon Phobos.
    \n1933: The Volksempf\u00e4nger is presented at the Berlin Funkausstellung.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1494: Johann Scheubel, German mathematician
    \n1577: Ambrosius Rhode, German mathematician, astronomer and physician
    \n1685: Brook Taylor, British mathematician
    \n1748: Pierre Sonnerat, French scientist and world traveller
    \n1890: Erich Kamke, German mathematician
    \n1923: Rudolf Schulten, physicist and nuclear technologist
    \n1932: Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1944: Reinhold B\u00f6hme, German mathematician<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1652: Florimond de Beaune, French mathematician
    \n1777: Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, German natural scientist
    \n1907: John Kerr, Scottish physicist
    \n1960: Carlo Emilio Bonferroni, Italian mathematician
    \n1994:Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British chemist, died in Norwich. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952 for his work on distribution chromatography.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1839: The painter and inventor L.J.M. Daguerre presented the first useful photographic method, the daguerreotype, to the Paris Academy of Sciences and at the same time to the public.
    \n1960: Sputnik 5 starts into orbit with the two bitches Belka and Strelka as well as several mice and plants on board and lands safely on earth again the next day.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1539: Andreas Schato, German mathematician, physicist and physician
    \n1646: John Flamsteed, English astronomer
    \n1721: Philipp Friedrich Gmelin, German physician, botanist and chemist
    \n1745: Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Swedish chemist
    \n1808: James Nasmyth, British engineer and astronomer
    \n1830: Lothar Meyer, German physician and chemist
    \n1891: Milton Lasell Humason, US-American astronomer
    \n1924: Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1929: Gerd Wedler, German chemist
    \n1939: Alan Baker, British mathematician<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1662: Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, physicist and mathematician
    \n1994: Linus Carl Pauling, US-American chemist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1885: The astronomer Ernst Hartwig observes the supernova S Andromedae (SN 1885A) in the Andromeda Nebula at the Estonian Tartu Observatory.
    \n1960: The dogs \"Belka\" and \"Strelka\", who had been shot into space the day before, are the first living creatures to return to Soviet Earth in their landing capsule during the Sputnik 5 mission.<\/p>\n

    Born
    \n1710: Thomas Simpson, British mathematician
    \n1719: Christian Mayer, German experimental physicist, astronomer, geodesist, cartographer and meteorologist
    \n1779: J\u00f6ns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist, is considered the father of modern chemistry.
    \n1814: Raffaele Piria, Italian doctor and chemist
    \n1867: Richard Reinhard Emil Schorr, German astronomer
    \n1898: Leopold Infeld, theoretical physicist with focus on relativity theory
    \n1901: Armin Dadieu, Austrian chemist and rocket expert
    \n1923: Tom Mike Apostol, US-American mathematician
    \n1932: Bogdan Povh, Slovenian-German physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1891: Franz Friedrich Ernst Br\u00fcnnow, German astronomer
    \n1915: Paul Ehrlich, German chemist, physician and serologist
    \n1917: Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1997: Norris Bradbury, US-American physicist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1897: Felix Hoffmann synthesizes heroin using C. R. Wright's 1874 method. It is offered as a drug by Bayer.
    \n1957: The world's first intercontinental rocket, the Soviet R-7, makes its first successful test flight.
    \n1986: The sudden release of carbon dioxide from Lake Nyos in Cameroon costs more than 1,700 lives.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1665: Giacomo Filippo Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician
    \n1789: Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician
    \n1813: Jean Servais Stas, Belgian chemist
    \n1815: Gustav-Adolf Hirn, French physicist
    \n1816: Charles Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gerhardt, French chemist
    \n1848: Paul-Pierre Henry, French optician and astronomer
    \n1864: Heinrich Alfred Ammelburg, German chemist and manager
    \n1864: Richard Wolffenstein, German chemist
    \n1895: Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov, Russian geochemist and Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    \n1902: Werner Fischer, German chemist
    \n1934: John L. Hall, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n

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    \n1836: Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier, French mathematician and physicist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1572: Rudolf Goclenius the Younger, German physician, physicist, physician, mathematician and astronomer
    \n1638: Georg Christoph Eimmart, Nuremberg astronomer and copper engraver
    \n1913: Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian-Russian physicist
    \n1929: Klaus Gersten, German mathematician, engineer and university teacher
    \n1941: Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1985: Paul Peter Ewald, German physicist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1614: The Reichsuniversit\u00e4t Groningen is founded.
    \n1785: The first steam engine built by James Watt is officially put into operation in Germany on the K\u00f6nig-Friedrich shaft near Hettstedt.
    \n1887: In the Merchandising Marks Act passed by parliament, Great Britain requires the country of origin to be indicated on all imported industrial products. \"Made in Germany\" is born.
    \n1910: The first official passenger flight of an airship in Germany takes place.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1605: Paul Marquard Schlegel, German physician and botanist
    \n1683: Giovanni Poleni, Italian mathematician and astronomer
    \n1766: Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg, German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist
    \n1769: Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, founder of scientific palaeontology
    \n1797: Jean Claude Saint-Venant, French mathematician and physicist
    \n1811: Auguste Bravais, French physicist, co-founder of crystallography
    \n1842: Osborne Reynolds, British physicist
    \n1855: Heinrich Beckurts, German chemist and university lecturer
    \n1870: Friedrich Auerbach, German chemist
    \n1872: Elsa Neumann, German physicist
    \n1875: William Henry Eccles, British physicist
    \n1888: Ivar Asbj\u00f8rn F\u00f8lling, Norwegian chemist and doctor
    \n1931: Hamilton Othanel Smith, American biochemist
    \n1933: Manfred Donike, German cyclist and chemist
    \n1933: Robert F. Curl, US-American chemist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1875: Richard van Rees, Dutch mathematician and physicist
    \n1889: Johann Georg Anton Geuther, German chemist
    \n1957: Eug\u00e8ne Schueller, French chemist and founder of L'Or\u00e9al
    \n1997: John Cowdery Kendrew, British biochemist and molecular biologist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    79: The Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae are buried during an eruption of Vesuvius.
    \n1853: Potato chips are prepared for the first time.
    \n1960: The Soviet Vostok Station in East Antarctica measures -88.3 \u00b0C, the lowest air temperature on earth to date.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1561: Bartholomew Pitiscus, German mathematician
    \n1876: Carl Wilhelm Wirtz, German astronomer
    \n1920: Richard Twiss, British physicist and radio astronomer
    \n1939: Michael E. Phelps, US-American mathematician and chemist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1633: Ambrosius Rhode, German mathematician, astronomer and physician
    \n1832: Nicolas L\u00e9onard Sadi Carnot, French physicist
    \n1888: Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, German physicist
    \n1982: Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer
    \n2002: Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Dutch astronomer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1561: Johan Philip Lansberg, Dutch astronomer
    \n1889: Georg Agde, German chemist
    \n1898: Helmut Hasse, German mathematician
    \n1900: Hans Adolf Krebs, German, later British physician and biochemist
    \n1903: Arpad Elo, American physicist and statistician
    \n1928: Herbert Kroemer, German physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1626: Zacharias Brendel the Elder, German philosopher, physicist, physician and botanist
    \n1822: Wilhelm Herschel, German-British astronomer, musician and composer
    \n1867: Michael Faraday, British physicist and chemist
    \n1883: Hermann M\u00fcller, German botanist, correspondent of Charles Darwin, discoverer of Coevolution
    \n1908: Antoine Henri Becquerel, French physicist, discoverer of radioactivity, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1953: Hans Eduard Fierz (Hans Eduard Fierz-David), Swiss chemist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1665: The amateur astronomer Johann Abraham Ihle from Leipzig is the first to observe a globular cluster, the M22, through his telescope.
    \n1978: The NVA officer Sigmund J\u00e4hn is the first German to launch into space in Soyuz 31.<\/p>\n

    Born
    \n1728: Johann Heinrich Lambert, German mathematician and physicist
    \n1743: Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier, French chemist
    \n1850: Charles Richet, French physician and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1878: Lina Stern, Latvian physiologist and biologist
    \n1882: James Franck, US-American physicist
    \n1934: Ugo Amaldi, Italian experimental physicist
    \n1951: Edward Witten, US-American mathematician and physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1349: Thomas Bradwardine, English mathematician, philosopher and theologian
    \n1987: Georg Wittig, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n1998: Frederick Reines, US-American physicist and Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1883: The Krakatau volcano in Indonesia emits the most violent of several eruptions since the previous day. The eruption, tidal waves (tsunamis) and pyroclastic flows kill at least 36,000 people.<\/p>\n

    Born in
    \n1635: Michael Strauch of German Mathematicians
    \n1850: Augusto Righi, Italian physicist
    \n1858: Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and linguist
    \n1874: Carl Bosch, German chemist, technician, industrialist, military economy leader, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1885: Ellen Lax, German industrial physicist
    \n1896: Leon Theremin, Russian physicist, inventor and musician, pioneer of electronic music
    \n1903: Rudolf K\u00fchnhold, German physicist
    \n1922: Arnulf Schl\u00fcter, German astrophysicist
    \n1928: Osamu Shimomura, Japanese biochemist and Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1958: Ernest O. Lawrence, US nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner
    \n2003: Martha Chase, US-American biochemist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1789: Wilhelm Herschel discovers the Saturn moon Enceladus.1898: The pharmacist Caleb Bradham renames the drink he invented Brad's Drink Pepsi-Cola.<\/p>\n

    Born
    \n1784: Nicaise Auguste Desvaux, French Professor of Botany
    \n1801: Antoine-Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and economic theorist
    \n1823: Charles Christopher Parry, North American botanist
    \n1867: Maxime B\u00f4cher, US-American mathematician
    \n1912: George Alcock, British astronomer
    \n1932: Yakir Aharonov, Israeli physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1863: Eilhard Mitscherlich, German chemist and mineralogist
    \n1880: Charles Thomas Jackson, American physician, chemist, geologist and mineralogist<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    1751: The largest wine barrel in the world is completed in the cellar of Heidelberg Castle. It can hold 221,726 litres of wine.
    \n1831: Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
    \n1982: The chemical element Meitnerium is produced for the first time at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (then the Society for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt.<\/p>\n

    Born
    \n1756: Jan \u015aniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer
    \n1815: Franz Varrentrapp, German chemist
    \n1857: Paul Friedl\u00e4nder, German chemist
    \n1910: Engelbert Broda, Austrian chemist and physicist
    \n1919: J\u00e1nos R\u00e1cz, Hungarian mathematician, teacher and author
    \n1959: Stephen Wolfram, British mathematician<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1862: Francesco Carlini, Italian astronomer and geodesist
    \n1868: Christian Friedrich Sch\u00f6nbein, German-Swiss chemist
    \n1873: Hermann Hankel, German mathematician<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1745: Johann Hieronymus Schroeter, German lawyer, senior civil servant and one of the most famous astronomers of his time
    \n1843: Carl Theodor Albrecht, German astronomer and chief of the Prussian geodesy
    \n1852: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, first Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
    \n1856: Carl Runge, German mathematician
    \n1860: Richard K\u00fcch, German physicist and chemist
    \n1869: Georg Graf von Arco, German physicist
    \n1871: Ernest Rutherford, British nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1884: The Svedberg, Swedish chemist
    \n1912: Edward Mills Purcell, US-American physicist<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1928: Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n1940: Joseph John Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
    \n2004: Fred Whipple, US-American Astronomer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Born in
    \n1634: Paul Ammann, German physician and botanist
    \n1663: Guillaume Amontons, French physicist
    \n1729: Hans Jacob Mumenthaler, Swiss chemist and mechanic
    \n1777: Jean Pierre Joseph d'Arcet, French chemist
    \n1786: Eug\u00e8ne Chevreul, French chemist
    \n1821: Herrmann von Helmholtz, German physiologist and physicist, in Potsdam
    \n1842: Adolf Pinner, German chemist
    \n1881: Emanuel Goldberg, Russian-Jewish chemist, technician and inventor
    \n1887: Friedrich Adolf Paneth, German-Austrian chemist
    \n1905: Robert Bacher, US nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project)
    \n1913: Bernard Lovell, British astrophysicist
    \n1916: Robert Hanbury Brown, English physicist and radio astronomer
    \n1946: Helmut Panke, German physicist and manager
    \n1949: David Politzer, US-American physicist and Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n

    Deceased
    \n1834: Karl Ludwig Harding, German astronomer
    \n1900: John Bennet Lawes, British agricultural chemist
    \n1940: Raymond Smith Dugan, US-American astronomer
    \n2002: George Porter, British chemist, Nobel Prize winner<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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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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IUPAC Pure and Applied Chemistry 73, 1795\u20131818
Bruker Almanac 2012<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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