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14 Jun 1599
Tycho |
Tycho (astronomy) Tycho leaves Wittenberg and moves to Bohemia where he has been offered residence at the castle of Benátky, recently bought by Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor. |
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14 Jun 1736
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb |
birth Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (died 1806) |
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14 Jun 1746
Colin Maclaurin |
death Colin Maclaurin Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (born 1698) |
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14 Jun 1864
Alois Alzheimer |
birth Alois Alzheimer Alois Alzheimer (died 1915), German neuroscientist. |
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14 Jun 1868
Karl Landsteiner |
birth Karl Landsteiner Karl Landsteiner (died 1943), physiologist. |
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14 Jun 1873
Johannes Diderik van der Waals |
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (physics) Johannes Diderik van der Waals defends his thesis, Over de Continuiteit van den Gas en Vloeistoftoestand (On the continuity of the gaseous and liquid state) at Leiden University. In this, he introduces the concepts of molecular volume and molecular attraction; gives a semi-quantitative description of the phenomena of condensation and critical temperatures; and derives the van der Waals equation. |
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14 Jun 1877
Ida Maclean |
birth Ida Maclean Ida Maclean, born Ida Smedley (died 1944), English biochemist. |
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14 Jun 1903
Alonzo Church |
birth Alonzo Church Alonzo Church (died 1995), American mathematician. |
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14 Jun 1921
George Rédei |
birth George Rédei George Rédei (died 2008), Hungarian biologist. |
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14 Jun 1946
John Logie Baird |
death John Logie Baird John Logie Baird (born 1888), inventor. |
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14 Jun 1949
Rhesus Monkey |
Rhesus Monkey (astronomy and space ) Albert II, a Rhesus Monkey, becomes the first mammal in space, in a U.S.-launched V-2 rocket, reaching an altitude of 83 miles (134 km) but dying on impact after a parachute failure. |
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14 Jun 2000
Elsie Widdowson |
death Elsie Widdowson Elsie Widdowson (b. 1908), nutritionist |
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