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Science on the 26th of February in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
26 Feb 1586 Niccolò Cabeo	science	birth Niccolò Cabeo Niccolò Cabeo, Italian polymath (died 1650)	0
26 Feb 1638 Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac	science	death Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (born 1581)	0
26 Feb 1785 Anna Sundström	science	birth Anna Sundström Anna Sundström, chemist (died 1871)	0
26 Feb 1786 François Arago	science	birth François Arago François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1853)	0
26 Feb 1789 Eaton Hodgkinson	science	birth Eaton Hodgkinson Eaton Hodgkinson, English structural engineer (died 1861)	0
26 Feb 1803 Arnold Adolph Berthold	science	birth Arnold Adolph Berthold Arnold Adolph Berthold, German physiologist (died 1861)	0
26 Feb 1834 Alois Senefelder	science	death Alois Senefelder Alois Senefelder (born 1771), German inventor.	0
26 Feb 1870 New York City	science	New York City (technology) In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway is opened.	0
26 Feb 1878 Angelo Secchi	science	death Angelo Secchi Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (born 1818)	0
26 Feb 1887 Anandi Gopal Joshi	science	death Anandi Gopal Joshi Anandi Gopal Joshi (born 1865), Indian physician.	0
26 Feb 1909 Hermann Ebbinghaus	science	death Hermann Ebbinghaus Hermann Ebbinghaus (born 1850), psychologist.	0
26 Feb 1935 Robert Watson-Watt	science	Robert Watson-Watt (physics) Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins first demonstrate the reflection of radio waves from an aircraft, near Daventry in England; on June 17, the first radio detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar is made at Orford Ness.	0
26 Feb 1955 Rosalind Franklin	science	Rosalind Franklin (biochemistry) Rosalind Franklin publishes her observation that tobacco mosaic virus rods are all of identical length.	0
26 Feb 1958 Susan J. Helms	science	birth Susan J. Helms Susan J. Helms, American astronaut	0
26 Feb 1991 Tim Berners-Lee	science	Tim Berners-Lee (computer science) Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor.	0
26 Feb 1998 Total solar eclipse	science	Total solar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Total solar eclipse	0
26 Feb 2003 businessman	science	businessman (medicine) A US businessman is diagnosed with the first known case of SARS in Hanoi, Vietnam, by WHO doctor Carlo Urbani.	0

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