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10 Apr 1651
Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus |
birth Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (died 1708) |
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10 Apr 1667
Jan Marek Marci |
death Jan Marek Marci Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician (born 1595) |
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10 Apr 1707
John Pringle |
birth John Pringle John Pringle, Scottish physician (died 1782) |
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10 Apr 1752
William Cheselden |
death William Cheselden William Cheselden, surgeon (born 1688) |
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10 Apr 1762
Giovanni Aldini |
birth Giovanni Aldini Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (died 1834) |
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10 Apr 1802
Great Trigonometric Survey |
Great Trigonometric Survey (surveying) Great Trigonometric Survey of India begins with the measurement of a baseline near Madras. |
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10 Apr 1813
Joseph Louis Lagrange |
death Joseph Louis Lagrange Joseph Louis Lagrange, Piedmont-born mathematician (born 1736) |
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10 Apr 1849
Walter Hunt |
Walter Hunt (technology) Walter Hunt is granted a United States patent for the modern safety pin. |
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10 Apr 1852
Arthur Vierendeel |
birth Arthur Vierendeel Arthur Vierendeel (died 1940), Belgian civil engineer. |
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10 Apr 1927
Marshall Warren Nirenberg |
birth Marshall Warren Nirenberg Marshall Warren Nirenberg (died 2010), American biochemist and geneticist; recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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10 Apr 1954
Auguste Lumière |
death Auguste Lumière Auguste Lumière (born 1862), French inventor, film pioneer. |
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10 Apr 1955
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
death Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ (born 1881), French-born paleontologist and philosopher. |
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10 Apr 1992
Peter D. Mitchell |
death Peter D. Mitchell Peter D. Mitchell (b. 1920), English Nobel laureate in chemistry. |
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10 Apr 2007
HD 209458 b |
HD 209458 b (, discoveries ) Spectroscopic analysis of HD 209458 b, an extrasolar planet, provides the first evidence of atmospheric water vapor beyond the Solar System. |
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