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Science on the 5th of July in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
05 Jul 1641 Simon Baskerville	science	death Simon Baskerville Simon Baskerville, English physician (born 1574)	0
05 Jul 1687 Isaac Newton	science	Isaac Newton (physics) Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known as the Principia, is published by the Royal Society of London. In it, Newton describes his theory of universal gravitation, explains the laws of mechanics (including Newton's laws of motion), gives a formula for the speed of sound and demonstrates that Earth is an oblate spheroid. The concepts in the Principia become the foundations of modern physics.	0
05 Jul 1750 Aimé Argand	science	birth Aimé Argand Aimé Argand, Swiss physicist and chemist (died 1803)	0
05 Jul 1817 Karl Vogt	science	birth Karl Vogt Karl Vogt (died 1895), German scientist who published notable works in zoology, geology and physiology.	0
05 Jul 1820 William John Macquorn Rankine	science	birth William John Macquorn Rankine William John Macquorn Rankine (died 1872), physicist.	0
05 Jul 1828 Andrew Duncan	science	death Andrew Duncan Andrew Duncan (born 1744), Scottish physician.	0
05 Jul 1833 Nicéphore Niépce	science	death Nicéphore Niépce Nicéphore Niépce (born 1765), inventor.	0
05 Jul 1838 Jean Marc Gaspard Itard	science	death Jean Marc Gaspard Itard Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (born 1774), otorhinolaryngologist.	0
05 Jul 1891 John Howard Northrop	science	birth John Howard Northrop John Howard Northrop (suicide 1987), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)	0
05 Jul 1904 Ernst Mayr	science	birth Ernst Mayr Ernst Mayr (died 2005), German-born evolutionary biologist.	0
05 Jul 1906 Paul Drude	science	death Paul Drude Paul Drude (born 1863), German physicist (suicide).	0
05 Jul 1911 Emil L. Smith	science	birth Emil L. Smith Emil L. Smith (died 2009), American biochemist who studied protein structure and function as well as biochemical evolution.	0
05 Jul 1929 Curtiss-Wright	science	Curtiss-Wright (aviation) The Curtiss-Wright corporation is founded.	0
05 Jul 1947 Lalji Singh	science	birth Lalji Singh Lalji Singh, Indian biotechnologist and cytogeneticist.	0
05 Jul 1948 National Health Service	science	National Health Service (medicine and human s) The National Health Service begins functioning in the United Kingdom, giving the right to universal healthcare, free at point of use.	0
05 Jul 1996 Dolly	science	Dolly (biology) Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at The Roslin Institute in Scotland.	0
05 Jul 1998 Mars	science	Mars (astronomy and space ) Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space-exploring nation.	0

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