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Science on the 13th of May in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
13 May 1588 Ole Worm	science	birth Ole Worm Ole Worm, Danish physician and antiquary (died 1655)	0
13 May 1742 Nicolas Andry	science	death Nicolas Andry Nicolas Andry, French physician (born 1658).	0
13 May 1832 Georges Cuvier	science	death Georges Cuvier Georges Cuvier (born 1769), zoologist.	0
13 May 1857 Ronald Ross	science	birth Ronald Ross Ronald Ross (died 1932), Indian-born British physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902.	0
13 May 1861 Comet	science	Comet (astronomy) Comet C/1861 J1 (the "Great Comet of 1861") first observed from Australia by John Tebbutt.	0
13 May 1878 Joseph Henry	science	death Joseph Henry Joseph Henry, American physicist (born 1797)	0
13 May 1883 Georgios Papanikolaou	science	birth Georgios Papanikolaou Georgios Papanikolaou (died 1962), inventor of the Pap smear.	0
13 May 1883 James Young	science	death James Young James Young (born 1811), Scottish chemist.	0
13 May 1884 Cyrus McCormick	science	death Cyrus McCormick Cyrus McCormick (born 1809), American inventor.	0
13 May 1888 Inge Lehmann	science	birth Inge Lehmann Inge Lehmann (died 1993) seismologist.	0
13 May 1897 Guglielmo Marconi	science	Guglielmo Marconi (technology) Guglielmo Marconi sends the first ever wireless communication over open sea when the message "Are you ready" is transmitted across the Bristol Channel from Lavernock Point in South Wales to Flat Holm Island, a distance of 6 kilometres (3.7 mi).	0
13 May 1913 Erich Lackner	science	birth Erich Lackner Erich Lackner (died 1992), Austrian-born German civil engineer.	0
13 May 1915 Morgan Crofton	science	death Morgan Crofton Morgan Crofton (born 1826), Irish-born mathematician.	0
13 May 1957 National Polytechnical Museum	science	National Polytechnical Museum (institutions) National Polytechnical Museum established in Sofia, Bulgaria.	0
13 May 1962 Henry Trendley Dean	science	death Henry Trendley Dean Henry Trendley Dean (born 1893), American dental researcher.	0
13 May 1984 Stanislaw Ulam	science	death Stanislaw Ulam Stanislaw Ulam (b. 1909), Polish American mathematician.	0
13 May 1996 tornado	science	tornado (meteorology) Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kills 600.	0

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