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Science on the 17th of April in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
17 Apr 1524 New York Bay	science	New York Bay (exploration and geog) da Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay.	0
17 Apr 1598 Giovanni Battista Riccioli	science	birth Giovanni Battista Riccioli Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (died 1671)	0
17 Apr 1626 Ole Borch	science	birth Ole Borch Ole Borch (Olaus Borrichius), Danish chemist, physician, grammarian and poet (died 1690)	0
17 Apr 1709 Giovanni Domenico Maraldi	science	birth Giovanni Domenico Maraldi Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (died 1788)	0
17 Apr 1790 Benjamin Franklin	science	death Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and inventor, known for his experiments with electricity (born 1706)	0
17 Apr 1828 Royal Free Hospital	science	Royal Free Hospital (medicine) Royal Free Hospital, established as the London General Institution for the Gratuitous Care of Malignant Diseases by surgeon William Marsden, opens.	0
17 Apr 1828 Sampson Gamgee	science	birth Sampson Gamgee Sampson Gamgee (died 1886), Tuscan-born English surgeon.	0
17 Apr 1866 Ernest Starling	science	birth Ernest Starling Ernest Starling (died 1927), physiologist	0
17 Apr 1919 Bernhard Sigmund Schultze	science	death Bernhard Sigmund Schultze Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (born 1827), obstetrician.	0
17 Apr 1930 Neoprene	science	Neoprene (chemistry) Neoprene is invented by DuPont.	0
17 Apr 1936 Meemann Chang	science	birth Meemann Chang Meemann Chang, Chinese paleontologist.	0
17 Apr 1953 Sven Gustaf Wingqvist	science	death Sven Gustaf Wingqvist Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist (b. 1876).	0
17 Apr 1955 Eduard Pernkopf	science	death Eduard Pernkopf Eduard Pernkopf (born 1888), Austrian anatomist.	0
17 Apr 1958 Expo 58	science	Expo 58 October 19 – Expo 58 in Brussels. The centrepiece is the Atomium; and a model of tobacco mosaic virus structure by Rosalind Franklin's research team is exhibited.	0
17 Apr 1970 Apollo 13	science	Apollo 13 (astronomy and space ) Apollo 13 returns safely to earth	0
17 Apr 1994 Roger Wolcott Sperry	science	death Roger Wolcott Sperry Roger Wolcott Sperry (b. 1913), American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
17 Apr 2003 Robert Atkins	science	death Robert Atkins Dr. Robert Atkins (b. 1930), nutritionist.	0

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