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05 Jul 1641
Simon Baskerville |
death Simon Baskerville Simon Baskerville, English physician (born 1574) |
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05 Jul 1687
Isaac Newton |
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. |
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05 Jul 1750
Aimé Argand |
birth Aimé Argand Aimé Argand, Swiss physicist and chemist (died 1803) |
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05 Jul 1817
Karl Vogt |
birth Karl Vogt Karl Vogt (died 1895), German scientist who published notable works in zoology, geology and physiology. |
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05 Jul 1820
William John Macquorn Rankine |
birth William John Macquorn Rankine William John Macquorn Rankine (died 1872), physicist. |
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05 Jul 1828
Andrew Duncan |
death Andrew Duncan Andrew Duncan (born 1744), Scottish physician. |
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05 Jul 1833
Nicéphore Niépce |
death Nicéphore Niépce Nicéphore Niépce (born 1765), inventor. |
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05 Jul 1838
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard |
death Jean Marc Gaspard Itard Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (born 1774), otorhinolaryngologist. |
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05 Jul 1891
John Howard Northrop |
birth John Howard Northrop John Howard Northrop (suicide 1987), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946) |
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05 Jul 1904
Ernst Mayr |
birth Ernst Mayr Ernst Mayr (died 2005), German-born evolutionary biologist. |
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05 Jul 1906
Paul Drude |
death Paul Drude Paul Drude (born 1863), German physicist (suicide). |
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05 Jul 1911
Emil L. Smith |
birth Emil L. Smith Emil L. Smith (died 2009), American biochemist who studied protein structure and function as well as biochemical evolution. |
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05 Jul 1929
Curtiss-Wright |
Curtiss-Wright (aviation) The Curtiss-Wright corporation is founded. |
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05 Jul 1947
Lalji Singh |
birth Lalji Singh Lalji Singh, Indian biotechnologist and cytogeneticist. |
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05 Jul 1948
National Health Service |
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. |
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05 Jul 1996
Dolly |
Dolly (biology) Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at The Roslin Institute in Scotland. |
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05 Jul 1998
Mars |
Mars (astronomy and space ) Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space-exploring nation. |
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