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17 May 1749
Edward Jenner |
birth Edward Jenner Edward Jenner, English physician, inventor of the smallpox vaccine (died 1823) |
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17 May 1776
Amos Eaton |
birth Amos Eaton Amos Eaton, American naturalist and pioneer of science education (died 1842) |
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17 May 1801
Lovisa Åhrberg |
birth Lovisa Åhrberg Lovisa Åhrberg, Swedish surgeon (died 1881) |
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17 May 1801
William Heberden |
death William Heberden William Heberden, English physician (born 1710) |
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17 May 1809
Leopold Auenbrugger |
death Leopold Auenbrugger Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (born 1722). |
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17 May 1836
Norman Lockyer |
birth Norman Lockyer Norman Lockyer (died 1920), astronomer. |
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17 May 1865
Armand David |
Armand David (life sciences) Father Armand David first observes Père David's Deer in China. |
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17 May 1897
USS Holland (SS-1) |
USS Holland (SS-1) (technology) Launch of the Holland VI (later USS Holland (SS-1)), designed by John Philip Holland, at Lewis Nixon's Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey; this is the first submarine having power to run submerged for any considerable distance, and the first to combine electric motors for submerged travel and gasoline (Otto) engines for use on the surface. |
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17 May 1902
Archaeologist |
Archaeologist (history of science) Archaeologist Valerios Stais identifies the Antikythera mechanism, now considered to be the oldest known analog computer. |
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17 May 1943
United States Army |
United States Army (computer science) The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC. |
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17 May 1953
Maria Petrou |
birth Maria Petrou Maria Petrou, Anglo-Greek artificial intelligence researcher (d. 2012). |
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17 May 2014
Gerald Edelman |
death Gerald Edelman Gerald Edelman, 84, American scientist, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on understanding the structure of antibodies |
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