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Science

Date	Type	Text
06 Apr 1528 Albrecht Dürer	science	death Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer, German artist and polymath (born 1471)	0
06 Apr 1551 Joachim Vadian	science	death Joachim Vadian Joachim Vadian, Swiss physician and polymath (born 1484)	0
06 Apr 1580 Dover Straits earthquake	science	Dover Straits earthquake (geology) Dover Straits earthquake.	0
06 Apr 1810 Philip Henry Gosse	science	birth Philip Henry Gosse Philip Henry Gosse (died 1888), science writer.	0
06 Apr 1829 Niels Henrik Abel	science	death Niels Henrik Abel Niels Henrik Abel (born 1802), mathematician.	0
06 Apr 1869 American Museum of Natural History	science	American Museum of Natural History (life sciences) The American Museum of Natural History is founded in New York.	0
06 Apr 1903 Doc Edgerton	science	birth Doc Edgerton Doc Edgerton, (died 1990), professor electrical engineer.	0
06 Apr 1909 Robert Peary	science	Robert Peary (earth sciences) Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and four Eskimo explorers come within a few miles of the North Pole.	0
06 Apr 1911 Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen	science	birth Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (died 1979), German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
06 Apr 1920 Edmond H. Fischer	science	birth Edmond H. Fischer Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate.	0
06 Apr 1928 James Watson	science	birth James Watson James Watson, American geneticist.	0
06 Apr 1938 Roy J. Plunkett	science	Roy J. Plunkett (chemistry) Roy J. Plunkett of DuPont accidentally discovers polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon).	0
06 Apr 1951 Robert Broom	science	death Robert Broom Robert Broom (born 1866), Scottish-born South African paleontologist.	0
06 Apr 1963 Otto Struve	science	death Otto Struve Otto Struve (born 1897), Russian astronomer.	0
06 Apr 1971 Margaret Newton	science	death Margaret Newton Margaret Newton (b. 1887), Canadian plant pathologist.	0
06 Apr 1972 Cray Research	science	Cray Research (computer science) Cray Research founded.	0
06 Apr 1973 Pioneer 11	science	Pioneer 11 (astronomy and space ) Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft	0
06 Apr 1992 Isaac Asimov	science	death Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov (b. 1920), American science author.	0
06 Apr 2001 Linda Partridge	science	Linda Partridge (biology) Linda Partridge and colleagues publish their identification of the role of a specific gene in animal ageing.	0

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