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Science on the 15th of February in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
15 Feb 1564 Galileo Galilei	science	birth Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei, Pisan astronomer (died 1642).	0
15 Feb 1570 Venus	science	Venus (astronomy) Venus occults Jupiter.	0
15 Feb 1600 José de Acosta	science	death José de Acosta José de Acosta, Spanish naturalist (born 1539)	0
15 Feb 1634 Wilhelm Fabry	science	death Wilhelm Fabry Wilhelm Fabry, German-born surgeon (born 1560)	0
15 Feb 1768 Anthony Carlisle	science	birth Anthony Carlisle Anthony Carlisle, English surgeon (died 1840)	0
15 Feb 1809 Cyrus McCormick	science	birth Cyrus McCormick Cyrus McCormick (died 1884), inventor.	0
15 Feb 1817 Robert Angus Smith	science	birth Robert Angus Smith Robert Angus Smith (died 1884), Scottish-born atmospheric chemist.	0
15 Feb 1839 Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen	science	birth Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (died 1920), Danish mathematician.	0
15 Feb 1842 Archibald Menzies	science	death Archibald Menzies Archibald Menzies (born 1754), botanist.	0
15 Feb 1850 Sophie Bryant	science	birth Sophie Bryant Sophie Bryant (died 1922), mathematician and educationalist.	0
15 Feb 1852 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children	science	Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children (medicine) The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient.	0
15 Feb 1853 Frederick Treves	science	birth Frederick Treves Frederick Treves (died 1923), English surgeon.	0
15 Feb 1856 Emil Kraepelin	science	birth Emil Kraepelin Emil Kraepelin (died 1926), German psychiatrist.	0
15 Feb 1861 Alfred North Whitehead	science	birth Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead (died 1947), English mathematician.	0
15 Feb 1876 E. H. "Chinese" Wilson	science	birth E. H. "Chinese" Wilson E. H. "Chinese" Wilson (died 1930), plant collector.	0
15 Feb 1935 Roger B. Chaffee	science	birth Roger B. Chaffee Roger B. Chaffee (died in accident 1967), American astronaut.	0
15 Feb 1944 Sigurd Hofmann	science	birth Sigurd Hofmann Sigurd Hofmann, German physicist.	0
15 Feb 1959 Sir Owen Richardson	science	death Sir Owen Richardson Sir Owen Richardson (born 1879), English physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1928)	0
15 Feb 1988 Richard Feynman	science	death Richard Feynman Richard Feynman (born 1918), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics.	0

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