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Science on the 12th of May in history

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Date	Type	Text
12 May 1684 Edme Mariotte	science	death Edme Mariotte Edme Mariotte, French physicist known for his recognition of Boyle's law (born 1620)	0
12 May 1706 François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix	science	birth François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix, French physician and botanist (died 1767)	0
12 May 1763 John Bell	science	birth John Bell John Bell, Scottish surgeon (died 1820)	0
12 May 1784 Abraham Trembley	science	death Abraham Trembley Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (born 1710)	0
12 May 1803 Justus von Liebig	science	birth Justus von Liebig Justus von Liebig, chemist (died 1873)	0
12 May 1805 William Rowan Hamilton	science	birth William Rowan Hamilton William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician, physicist and astronomer (died 1865)	0
12 May 1817 William Goforth	science	death William Goforth William Goforth (born 1766), American physician and paleontologist.	0
12 May 1820 Florence Nightingale	science	birth Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (died 1910), nurse.	0
12 May 1884 Robert Angus Smith	science	death Robert Angus Smith Robert Angus Smith (born 1817), British atmospheric chemist.	0
12 May 1910 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	science	birth Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (died 1994), chemist.	0
12 May 1910 William Huggins	science	death William Huggins William Huggins (born 1824), English astronomer.	0
12 May 1941 Konrad Zuse	science	Konrad Zuse (computer science) German engineer Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, Turing complete, fully automatic computer, to an audience of aviation engineers in Berlin.	0

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