| Date | Text | |
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27 Jan 1596
Francis Drake |
death Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake (b. 1540), English explorer (at sea). |
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27 Jan 1621
Thomas Willis |
birth Thomas Willis Thomas Willis, English physician who contributes to knowledge of the nervous and cardiovascular systems (died 1675) |
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27 Jan 1837
Eduard von Hofmann |
birth Eduard von Hofmann Eduard von Hofmann (died 1897), forensic pathologist. |
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27 Jan 1839
Marie-Adolphe Carnot |
birth Marie-Adolphe Carnot Marie-Adolphe Carnot (died 1920), French chemist and mining engineer. |
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27 Jan 1841
volcano |
volcano (exploration) The active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is discovered and named by James Clark Ross. |
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27 Jan 1847
Institution of Mechanical Engineers |
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (technology) Institution of Mechanical Engineers founded in the Queen's Hotel next to Curzon Street railway station in Birmingham, England, by George Stephenson and others. |
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27 Jan 1851
John James Audubon |
death John James Audubon John James Audubon (born 1785), naturalist and illustrator. |
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27 Jan 1860
János Bolyai |
death János Bolyai János Bolyai (born 1802), mathematician. |
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27 Jan 1860
Thomas Brisbane |
death Thomas Brisbane Thomas Brisbane (born 1773), astronomer. |
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27 Jan 1873
Adam Sedgwick |
death Adam Sedgwick Adam Sedgwick (born 1785), geologist |
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27 Jan 1888
National Geographic Society |
National Geographic Society (geography) The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. by Gardiner Greene Hubbard. |
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27 Jan 1903
John Carew Eccles |
birth John Carew Eccles John Carew Eccles (died 1997), psychologist. |
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27 Jan 1912
Francis Rogallo |
birth Francis Rogallo Francis Rogallo (died 2009), American aeronautical engineer. |
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27 Jan 1918
Antonín Mrkos |
birth Antonín Mrkos Antonín Mrkos (died 1996), astronomer. |
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27 Jan 1967
Apollo 1 |
Apollo 1 (astronomy and space ) Apollo 1 destroyed in a fire on the launch pad. |
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27 Jan 1967
USA |
USA (astronomy and space ) The USA, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty. |
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27 Jan 2005
climateprediction.net |
climateprediction.net (climatology) Scientists behind the climateprediction.net project, a distributed computing project run from Oxford University, announce that first results indicate a long term surface temperature increase due to global warming of between 2 and 11 degrees Celsius as a consequence of doubling carbon dioxide levels, with most of the simulations predicting a temperature rise of around 3.4 °C. The results are published in Nature. |
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27 Jan 2006
Scientific misconduct |
Scientific misconduct (other s) Scientific misconduct: The University of Tokyo announces that Kazunari Taira's experimental results in RNA research are irreproducible. |
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