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Science on the 29th of January in history

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Date	Type	Text
29 Jan 1617 William Butler	science	death William Butler William Butler, Irish alchemist (at sea) (born c. 1534).	0
29 Jan 1688 Emanuel Swedenborg	science	birth Emanuel Swedenborg Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and theologian (died 1772)	0
29 Jan 1715 Bernard Lamy	science	death Bernard Lamy Bernard Lamy, French mathematician, philosopher and physicist (born 1640)	0
29 Jan 1768 John Martyn	science	death John Martyn John Martyn, English botanist (born 1699)	0
29 Jan 1773 Friedrich Mohs	science	birth Friedrich Mohs Friedrich Mohs, German mineralogist (died 1839)	0
29 Jan 1838 Edward Morley	science	birth Edward Morley Edward Morley (died 1923), chemist.	0
29 Jan 1841 Henry Morton Stanley	science	birth Henry Morton Stanley Henry Morton Stanley (died 1904), explorer, journalist.	0
29 Jan 1850 Edmond Nocard	science	birth Edmond Nocard Edmond Nocard (died 1903), French veterinarian and microbiologist.	0
29 Jan 1854 Fred Baker	science	birth Fred Baker Fred Baker (died 1938), American physician and naturalist	0
29 Jan 1926 Abdus Salam	science	birth Abdus Salam Abdus Salam (died 1996), Punjabi theoretical physicist.	0
29 Jan 1927 Lewis Urry	science	birth Lewis Urry Lewis Urry (died 2004), Canadian inventor of the long-lasting alkaline battery.	0
29 Jan 1929 John Polanyi	science	birth John Polanyi John Polanyi, German-born Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.	0
29 Jan 1934 Fritz Haber	science	death Fritz Haber Fritz Haber (born 1868), German chemist.	0
29 Jan 1937 Aleen Cust	science	death Aleen Cust Aleen Cust (born 1868), Irish veterinary surgeon.	0
29 Jan 1947 Linda B. Buck	science	birth Linda B. Buck Linda B. Buck, American biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2004.	0
29 Jan 2014 Robert Resnick	science	death Robert Resnick Robert Resnick, 91, American physicist, academic and author	0

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