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22 Feb 1512
Amerigo Vespucci |
death Amerigo Vespucci Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (born 1454) |
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22 Feb 1622
English |
English (technology) An English patent is granted for Dud Dudley's process for smelting iron ore with coke. |
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22 Feb 1627
Olivier van Noort |
death Olivier van Noort Olivier van Noort Dutch circumnavigator (born 1558) |
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22 Feb 1632
Galileo |
Galileo (astronomy) Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo), comparing the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic view, is published in Florence and delivered to his patron, Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. |
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22 Feb 1636
Sanctorius |
death Sanctorius Sanctorius, Italian physiologist (born 1561) |
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22 Feb 1705
Peter Artedi |
birth Peter Artedi Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (died 1735) |
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22 Feb 1756
Pehr Löfling |
death Pehr Löfling Pehr Löfling, Swedish Linnean botanist, (born 1729) |
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22 Feb 1786
Thomas Wright |
death Thomas Wright Thomas Wright, English astronomer (born 1711) |
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22 Feb 1794
Caspar Friedrich Wolff |
death Caspar Friedrich Wolff Caspar Friedrich Wolff, physiologist (born 1733) |
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22 Feb 1796
Adolphe Quetelet |
birth Adolphe Quetelet Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician and astronomer (died 1874) |
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22 Feb 1815
Smithson Tennant |
death Smithson Tennant Smithson Tennant, British chemist (born 1761) |
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22 Feb 1842
Camille Flammarion |
birth Camille Flammarion Camille Flammarion (died 1925), astronomer. |
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22 Feb 1875
Charles Lyell |
death Charles Lyell Charles Lyell (born 1797), geologist |
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22 Feb 1879
J. N. Brønsted |
birth J. N. Brønsted J. N. Brønsted (died 1947), Danish physical chemist. |
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22 Feb 1888
Anna Kingsford |
death Anna Kingsford Anna Kingsford (born 1846), physician, anti-vivisectionist and vegetarian. |
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22 Feb 1901
George FitzGerald |
death George FitzGerald George FitzGerald (born 1851), Irish mathematician. |
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22 Feb 1903
Frank P. Ramsey |
birth Frank P. Ramsey Frank P. Ramsey (died 1930), mathematician. |
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22 Feb 1914
Renato Dulbecco |
birth Renato Dulbecco Renato Dulbecco (died 2012), Italian-born virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975). |
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22 Feb 1925
Thomas Clifford Allbutt |
death Thomas Clifford Allbutt Thomas Clifford Allbutt (born 1836), physician. |
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22 Feb 1949
Félix d'Herelle |
death Félix d'Herelle Félix d'Herelle (died 1873), French-Canadian microbiologist, a co-discoverer of bacteriophages. |
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22 Feb 1968
May Smith |
death May Smith May Smith (born 1879), English experimental psychologist. |
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22 Feb 1997
Roslin |
Roslin (biology) In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned and was born in July 1996 |
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