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Science on the 9th of February in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
09 Feb 1752 Frederik Hasselquist	science	death Frederik Hasselquist Frederik Hasselquist, Swedish traveller and naturalist (born 1722)	0
09 Feb 1775 Farkas Bolyai	science	birth Farkas Bolyai Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (died 1856)	0
09 Feb 1811 Nevil Maskelyne	science	death Nevil Maskelyne Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (born 1732)	0
09 Feb 1867 Filippo de Filippi	science	death Filippo de Filippi Filippo de Filippi (born 1814), Italian zoologist.	0
09 Feb 1909 Giulio Racah	science	birth Giulio Racah Giulio Racah (died 1965), Italian–Israeli mathematician and physicist.	0
09 Feb 1910 Jacques Monod	science	birth Jacques Monod Jacques Monod (died 1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.	0
09 Feb 1913 Meteor procession of February 9, 1913	science	Meteor procession of February 9, 1913 (astronomy) Meteor procession of February 9, 1913 visible along a great circle arc 6,040 miles (9,720 km) across the Americas. Astronomer Clarence Chant concludes that the source was a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.	0
09 Feb 1927 Charles Walcott	science	death Charles Walcott Charles Walcott (born 1850), American paleontologist.	0
09 Feb 1950 Californium	science	Californium (chemistry) Californium, a radioactive actinide transuranium element, is first synthesized by Stanley G. Thompson, Kenneth Street, Jr., Albert Ghiorso and Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.	0
09 Feb 1963 Brian Greene	science	birth Brian Greene Brian Greene, American theoretical physicist.	0
09 Feb 1971 Apollo program	science	Apollo program (astronomy and space ) Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.	0
09 Feb 1971 San Fernando (Sylmar) earthquake	science	San Fernando (Sylmar) earthquake (earth sciences) The San Fernando (Sylmar) earthquake occurred in southern California with a magnitude of 6.6 and a perceived intensity of XI (extreme) on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale.	0
09 Feb 1996 Copernicium	science	Copernicium (chemistry) Copernicium first created at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov and others.	0

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