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10 Feb 1686
Jan Frederik Gronovius |
birth Jan Frederik Gronovius Jan Frederik Gronovius, Dutch botanist (died 1762) |
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10 Feb 1796
Henry De la Beche |
birth Henry De la Beche Henry De la Beche, English geologist (died 1855) |
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10 Feb 1840
Per Teodor Cleve |
birth Per Teodor Cleve Per Teodor Cleve (died 1905), chemist. |
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10 Feb 1863
patents |
patents (technology) Alanson Crane patents a fire extinguisher. |
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10 Feb 1878
Claude Bernard |
death Claude Bernard Claude Bernard, French physiologist (born 1813) |
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10 Feb 1891
Sofia Kovalevskaya |
death Sofia Kovalevskaya Sofia Kovalevskaya (born 1850), mathematician. |
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10 Feb 1902
Walter Houser Brattain |
birth Walter Houser Brattain Walter Houser Brattain (died 1987), American physicist. |
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10 Feb 1906
battleship |
battleship (technology) Launch of battleship HMS Dreadnought. |
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10 Feb 1912
Joseph Lister |
death Joseph Lister Joseph Lister (born 1827), British inventor of antiseptic. |
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10 Feb 1923
Wilhelm Röntgen |
death Wilhelm Röntgen Wilhelm Röntgen (born 1845), physicist, discoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate. |
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10 Feb 1931
Carl Rettenmeyer |
birth Carl Rettenmeyer Carl Rettenmeyer (died 2009), American biologist who specialised in army ants. |
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10 Feb 1963
Vivian Wing-Wah Yam |
birth Vivian Wing-Wah Yam Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Hong Kong chemist working on OLEDs. |
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10 Feb 1996
Deep Blue |
Deep Blue (computer science) Deep Blue defeats chess grand-master Garry Kasparov for the first time. |
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10 Feb 1998
XML |
XML (computer science) XML is published as a recommendation of the W3C. |
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10 Feb 2002
Harold Furth |
death Harold Furth Harold Furth (b. 1930), expert in plasma physics and nuclear fusion. |
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10 Feb 2005
D. Allan Bromley |
death D. Allan Bromley D. Allan Bromley (b. 1926), director of Yale's A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory. |
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