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Science on the 9th of January in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
09 Jan 1586 Paul Wittich	science	death Paul Wittich Paul Wittich, German astronomer and mathematician (born c. 1546)	0
09 Jan 1839 French Academy of Sciences	science	French Academy of Sciences (technology) The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.	0
09 Jan 1848 Caroline Herschel	science	death Caroline Herschel Caroline Herschel (born 1750), German astronomer.	0
09 Jan 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake	science	Fort Tejon earthquake (earth sciences) Fort Tejon earthquake on the San Andreas Fault with a moment magnitude of 7.9.	0
09 Jan 1870 Joseph Strauss	science	birth Joseph Strauss Joseph Strauss (died 1938), American bridge engineer.	0
09 Jan 1880 William Budd	science	death William Budd William Budd (born 1811), English physician and epidemiologist.	0
09 Jan 1922 Har Gobind Khorana	science	birth Har Gobind Khorana Har Gobind Khorana (died 2011), Indian-born biochemist and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (shared with Ralph F. Hirschmann).	0
09 Jan 1930 Jacob T. Schwartz	science	birth Jacob T. Schwartz Jacob T. Schwartz (died 2009), American mathematician, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.	0
09 Jan 1993 Janet Vaughan	science	death Janet Vaughan Dame Janet Vaughan, English physiologist (b. 1899)	0
09 Jan 2007 Apple Inc.	science	Apple Inc. (, discoveries ) Apple Inc.'s first iPhone smartphone is announced by Steve Jobs at Macworld in San Francisco; it is released on 29 June.	0

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