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07 May 1617
David Fabricius |
death David Fabricius David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (born 1564) |
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07 May 1765
Alexis Clairaut |
death Alexis Clairaut Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician (born 1713) |
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07 May 1774
Francis Beaufort |
birth Francis Beaufort Francis Beaufort (died 1856), hydrographer. |
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07 May 1895
Alexander Stepanovich Popov |
Alexander Stepanovich Popov (physics) Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates a radio receiver (containing a coherer) refined as a lightning detector to the Russian Physico-Chemical Society, recognized as the first practical application of electromagnetic waves. |
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07 May 1897
Abraham Dee Bartlett |
death Abraham Dee Bartlett Abraham Dee Bartlett (born 1812), English zoologist. |
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07 May 1909
Edwin H. Land |
birth Edwin H. Land Edwin H. Land (died 1991), American inventor and founder of Polaroid. |
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07 May 1957
Wilhelm Filchner |
death Wilhelm Filchner Wilhelm Filchner (born 1877), explorer. |
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07 May 1959
C. P. Snow |
C. P. Snow Scientist and novelist C. P. Snow delivers an influential Rede Lecture on The Two Cultures, concerning a perceived breakdown of communication between the sciences and humanities, in the Senate House, University of Cambridge. It is subsequently published as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. |
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07 May 2014
Colin Pillinger |
death Colin Pillinger Colin Pillinger, 70, English planetary scientist |
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