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25 Jan 1627
Robert Boyle |
birth Robert Boyle Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist (died 1691) |
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25 Jan 1726
Guillaume Delisle |
death Guillaume Delisle Guillaume Delisle, French scientist, one of the founders of modern geography (born 1675) |
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25 Jan 1736
Joseph Louis Lagrange |
birth Joseph Louis Lagrange Joseph Louis Lagrange, Piedmont-born mathematician (died 1813) |
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25 Jan 1839
H. Fox Talbot |
H. Fox Talbot (technology) H. Fox Talbot shows his "photogenic drawings" at the Royal Institution. |
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25 Jan 1878
Ernst Alexanderson |
birth Ernst Alexanderson Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (died 1975) |
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25 Jan 1897
David Kirkaldy |
death David Kirkaldy David Kirkaldy (born 1820), Scottish-born engineer, pioneer of materials testing. |
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25 Jan 1917
Ilya Prigogine |
birth Ilya Prigogine Ilya Prigogine (died 2003), Russian-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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25 Jan 1947
Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. |
Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. (computer science) Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann file a United States patent request for an invention described as a "cathode ray tube amusement device", probably the first video game. |
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25 Jan 1949
Paul Nurse |
birth Paul Nurse Paul Nurse, English cell biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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25 Jan 1994
Stephen Cole Kleene |
death Stephen Cole Kleene Stephen Cole Kleene (b. 1909), American mathematician. |
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25 Jan 1999
Richter scale |
Richter scale (geology) A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,000. |
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25 Jan 2004
Mars Exploration Rover |
Mars Exploration Rover (space exploration) NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission Opportunity (MER-B), the second Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars in the Meridiani Planum at 05:05 SCET. |
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