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Science on the 4th of May in history

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Date	Type	Text
04 May 1566 Luca Ghini	science	death Luca Ghini Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (born 1490)	0
04 May 1605 Ulisse Aldrovandi	science	death Ulisse Aldrovandi Ulisse Aldrovandi, Bolognese naturalist (born 1522)	0
04 May 1615 Adriaan van Roomen	science	death Adriaan van Roomen Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (born 1561)	0
04 May 1677 Isaac Barrow	science	death Isaac Barrow Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (born 1616)	0
04 May 1733 Jean-Charles de Borda	science	birth Jean-Charles de Borda Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (died 1799)	0
04 May 1764 Joseph Carpue	science	birth Joseph Carpue Joseph Carpue, English surgeon (died 1846)	0
04 May 1777 Louis Jacques Thénard	science	birth Louis Jacques Thénard Louis Jacques Thénard, chemist (died 1857)	0
04 May 1786 Leonardo Ximenes	science	death Leonardo Ximenes Leonardo Ximenes, Tuscan polymath (born 1716)	0
04 May 1825 Thomas Henry Huxley	science	birth Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley (died 1895), English biologist.	0
04 May 1845 William Kingdon Clifford	science	birth William Kingdon Clifford William Kingdon Clifford (died 1879), geometer.	0
04 May 1879 William Froude	science	death William Froude William Froude (born 1810), hydrodynamicist.	0
04 May 1890 Carl Brigham	science	birth Carl Brigham Carl Brigham (died 1943), American pioneer of psychometrics.	0
04 May 1922 Eugenie Clark	science	birth Eugenie Clark Eugenie Clark (died 2015), American ichthyologist.	0
04 May 1974 Ludwig Koch	science	death Ludwig Koch Ludwig Koch, German-born British animal sound recordist (b. 1881)	0
04 May 2003 Idaho Gem	science	birth Idaho Gem Idaho Gem, the world's first cloned mule.	0
04 May 2014 Edgar Cortright	science	death Edgar Cortright Edgar Cortright, 90, American scientist and engineer, NASA senior official	0

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