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Science on the 25th of February in history

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Date	Type	Text
25 Feb 1670 Maria Margarethe Kirch born Winckelmann	science	birth Maria Margarethe Kirch born Winckelmann Maria Margarethe Kirch born Winckelmann, German astronomer (died 1720)	0
25 Feb 1682 Giovanni Battista Morgagni	science	birth Giovanni Battista Morgagni Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771)	0
25 Feb 1710 Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut	science	death Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French explorer (born c. 1639)	0
25 Feb 1836 Samuel Colt	science	Samuel Colt (technology) Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.	0
25 Feb 1837 Thomas Davenport	science	Thomas Davenport (technology) Thomas Davenport obtains the first United States patent on an electric motor.	0
25 Feb 1856 George Don	science	death George Don George Don (born 1797), Scottish botanist.	0
25 Feb 1886 Katherine Sophia Kane	science	death Katherine Sophia Kane Lady Katherine Sophia Kane, Irish botanist (born 1811)	0
25 Feb 1898 William Astbury	science	birth William Astbury William Astbury (died 1961), English physicist and molecular biologist.	0
25 Feb 1947 Friedrich Paschen	science	death Friedrich Paschen Friedrich Paschen (born 1865), German physicist.	0
25 Feb 1950 George Minot	science	death George Minot George Minot (born 1885), American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934	0
25 Feb 1953 Sergei Winogradsky	science	death Sergei Winogradsky Sergei Winogradsky, Russian microbiologist (b. 1856).	0
25 Feb 1978 Edith Humphrey	science	death Edith Humphrey Edith Humphrey (b. 1875), English chemist.	0
25 Feb 1999 Glenn T. Seaborg	science	death Glenn T. Seaborg Glenn T. Seaborg (b. 1912), American physical chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.	0

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