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Science on the 6th of January in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
06 Jan 1561 Thomas Fincke	science	birth Thomas Fincke Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (died 1656)	0
06 Jan 1607 Guidobaldo del Monte	science	death Guidobaldo del Monte Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian mathematician (born 1545)	0
06 Jan 1714 Percivall Pott	science	birth Percivall Pott Percivall Pott, English surgeon (died 1788)	0
06 Jan 1731 Étienne François Geoffroy	science	death Étienne François Geoffroy Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (born 1672)	0
06 Jan 1745 Jacques Étienne Montgolfier	science	birth Jacques Étienne Montgolfier Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (died 1799)	0
06 Jan 1822 Heinrich Schliemann	science	birth Heinrich Schliemann Heinrich Schliemann, archaeologist (died 1890)	0
06 Jan 1826 John Farey	science	death John Farey John Farey (born 1766), geologist.	0
06 Jan 1838 Samuel Morse	science	Samuel Morse (technology) Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the electrical telegraph.	0
06 Jan 1852 Louis Braille	science	death Louis Braille Louis Braille (born 1809), French inventor.	0
06 Jan 1884 Gregor Mendel	science	death Gregor Mendel Gregor Mendel (born 1822), Silesian geneticist.	0
06 Jan 1906 G. Ledyard Stebbins	science	birth G. Ledyard Stebbins G. Ledyard Stebbins (died 2000), American botanist and geneticist.	0
06 Jan 1918 Georg Cantor	science	death Georg Cantor Georg Cantor (born 1845), mathematician.	0
06 Jan 1920 Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen	science	death Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (born 1839).	0
06 Jan 1933 Oleg Makarov	science	birth Oleg Makarov Oleg Makarov (died 2003), Soviet cosmonaut.	0
06 Jan 1998 Lunar Prospector	science	Lunar Prospector (astronomy and space ) The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon and later finds evidence for frozen water on the moon's surface.	0

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