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Science on the 18th of January in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
18 Jan 1664 Isaac Barrow	science	Isaac Barrow (mathematics) Isaac Barrow is appointed first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.	0
18 Jan 1730 Antonio Vallisneri	science	death Antonio Vallisneri Antonio Vallisneri, Italian physician and natural scientist (born 1661)	0
18 Jan 1733 Kaspar Friedrich Wolff	science	birth Kaspar Friedrich Wolff Kaspar Friedrich Wolff, German surgeon and physiologist (died 1794)	0
18 Jan 1758 François Nicole	science	death François Nicole François Nicole, French mathematician (born 1683)	0
18 Jan 1778 third voyage	science	third voyage (earth sciences and e) On his third voyage, Captain James Cook, with ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, becomes the first European to view the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.	0
18 Jan 1782 John Pringle	science	death John Pringle Sir John Pringle, Scottish-born physician (born 1707)	0
18 Jan 1815 Warren De La Rue	science	birth Warren De La Rue Warren De La Rue, Guernsey-born astronomical photographer (died 1889)	0
18 Jan 1825 Edward Frankland	science	birth Edward Frankland Edward Frankland (died 1899), English chemist.	0
18 Jan 1870 Queensland lungfish	science	Queensland lungfish (biology) Gerhardt Krefft first describes the Queensland lungfish, in The Sydney Morning Herald.	0
18 Jan 1878 William Stokes	science	death William Stokes William Stokes, Irish physician (born 1804)	0
18 Jan 1878 Antoine César Becquerel	science	death Antoine César Becquerel Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (born 1788)	0
18 Jan 1880 Paul Ehrenfest	science	birth Paul Ehrenfest Paul Ehrenfest (died 1933), Austrian physicist and mathematician.	0
18 Jan 1908 Jacob Bronowski	science	birth Jacob Bronowski Jacob Bronowski (died 1974), Polish-born scientific polymath.	0
18 Jan 1911 Eugene Ely	science	Eugene Ely (technology) Eugene Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first aircraft landing on a ship.	0
18 Jan 1977 Legionnaires' disease	science	Legionnaires' disease (medicine) Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the "Legionnaires' disease".	0

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