Science on the 3rd of May 1880 in history

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03 May 1880 Jonathan Homer Lane	science	death Jonathan Homer Lane Died 3 May 1880 at age 60 (born 9 Aug 1819). American astrophysicist who was the first to investigate mathematically the Sun as a gaseous body. His work demonstrated the interrelationships of pressure, temperature, and density inside the Sun and was fundamental to the emergence of modern theories of stellar evolution.	0

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