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14 Jan 1555
![]() Jacques Dubois |
death Jacques Dubois Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (born 1478) |
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14 Jan 1679
![]() Jacques de Billy |
death Jacques de Billy Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (born 1602) |
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14 Jan 1742
![]() Edmond Halley |
death Edmond Halley Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (born 1656). |
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14 Jan 1800
![]() Ludwig von Köchel |
birth Ludwig von Köchel Ludwig von Köchel, Austrian musicologist and botanist (died 1877) |
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14 Jan 1806
![]() Matthew Fontaine Maury |
birth Matthew Fontaine Maury Matthew Fontaine Maury, American oceanographer (died 1873) |
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14 Jan 1845
![]() Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin |
Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin established and begins publishing Fortschritte der Physik and Verhandlungen. |
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14 Jan 1864
![]() Nicholas Callan |
death Nicholas Callan Father Nicholas Callan (born 1799), physicist. |
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14 Jan 1875
![]() Albert Schweitzer |
birth Albert Schweitzer Albert Schweitzer (died 1965), German-born French medical missionary |
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14 Jan 1901
![]() Alfred Tarski |
birth Alfred Tarski Alfred Tarski (died 1983), Polish Jewish logician and mathematician. |
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14 Jan 1905
![]() Ernst Abbe |
death Ernst Abbe Ernst Abbe (born 1840), physicist |
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14 Jan 1943
![]() Ralph Steinman |
birth Ralph Steinman Ralph Steinman (died 2011), Canadian-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2011). |
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14 Jan 1953
![]() Doctors' plot |
Doctors' plot "Doctors' plot": The state newspaper Pravda publishes an article alleging that many of the most prestigious physicians in the Soviet Union, mostly Jews, are part of a major plot to poison the country's senior political and military leaders. |
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14 Jan 1978
![]() Kurt Gödel |
death Kurt Gödel Kurt Gödel (b. 1906), American mathematician. |
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14 Jan 1990
![]() Rosalind Pitt-Rivers |
death Rosalind Pitt-Rivers Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (b. 1907), English biochemist. |
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14 Jan 1998
![]() Dallas |
Dallas (physiology and medic) Researchers in Dallas, Texas, present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis). |
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14 Jan 2004
![]() Pennsylvania State University |
Pennsylvania State University (physics) Physicists from Pennsylvania State University produce the first solid Bose–Einstein condensate. |
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14 Jan 2005
![]() Huygens probe |
Huygens probe (space exploration) The Huygens probe is successfully sent into the atmosphere of Titan and returns science data to Earth via the Cassini orbiter. It survives the landing on the surface of Titan and sends pictures and other data for more than an hour afterwards. |
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14 Jan 2007
![]() Scientists |
Scientists (, discoveries ) Scientists at the Roslin Institute announce they have genetically engineered chickens to lay eggs containing cancer-fighting proteins. |