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Science on the 18th of February in history

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Date	Type	Text
18 Feb 1515 Valerius Cordus	science	birth Valerius Cordus Valerius Cordus, German physician and botanist (died 1544)	0
18 Feb 1535 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa	science	death Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist (born 1486)	0
18 Feb 1547 Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī	science	birth Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Lebanese-born philosopher and astronomer (died 1621)	0
18 Feb 1745 Alessandro Volta	science	birth Alessandro Volta Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and chemist (died 1827)	0
18 Feb 1804 Baron Carl von Rokitansky	science	birth Baron Carl von Rokitansky Baron Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian pathologist (died 1878)	0
18 Feb 1813 Karl Weltzien	science	birth Karl Weltzien Karl Weltzien, Russian-born German inorganic chemist, an organizer of the Karlsruhe Congress (died 1870)	0
18 Feb 1838 Ernst Mach	science	birth Ernst Mach Ernst Mach (died 1916), physicist.	0
18 Feb 1851 Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi	science	death Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (born 1804), mathematician.	0
18 Feb 1899 Sophus Lie	science	death Sophus Lie Sophus Lie (born 1842), Norwegian mathematician.	0
18 Feb 1906 Hans Asperger	science	birth Hans Asperger Hans Asperger (died 1980), pediatrician.	0
18 Feb 1909 Warren Elliot Henry	science	birth Warren Elliot Henry Warren Elliot Henry (died 2001), African American physicist.	0
18 Feb 1930 Pluto	science	Pluto (astronomy and space ) Pluto is identified by Clyde Tombaugh from photographs taken during January at the Lowell Observatory.	0
18 Feb 1957 Henry Norris Russell	science	death Henry Norris Russell Henry Norris Russell (born 1877), astronomer.	0
18 Feb 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer	science	death J. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer (born 1904), American physicist.	0
18 Feb 2014 Forman S. Acton	science	death Forman S. Acton Forman S. Acton, 93, American computer scientist, author and academic	0

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