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Science on the 9th of September in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
09 Sep 1713 Nicolas Bernoulli	science	Nicolas Bernoulli (mathematics) Nicolas Bernoulli first describes the St. Petersburg paradox in a letter to Pierre Raymond de Montmort.	0
09 Sep 1737 Luigi Galvani	science	birth Luigi Galvani Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (died 1798)	0
09 Sep 1770 Bernhard Siegfried Albinus	science	death Bernhard Siegfried Albinus Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, German-born anatomist in Holland (born 1697)	0
09 Sep 1834 James Weddell	science	death James Weddell James Weddell (born 1787), Anglo-Scots seal hunter and Antarctic explorer.	0
09 Sep 1836 William Henry	science	death William Henry William Henry (born 1774), chemist (suicide).	0
09 Sep 1841 Augustin Pyramus de Candolle	science	death Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (born 1778), Swiss botanist.	0
09 Sep 1842 Elliott Coues	science	birth Elliott Coues Elliott Coues (died 1899), ornithologist.	0
09 Sep 1852 John Henry Poynting	science	birth John Henry Poynting John Henry Poynting (died 1914), English physicist, discoverer of the Poynting–Robertson effect and the Poynting vector.	0
09 Sep 1853 Pierre Marie	science	birth Pierre Marie Pierre Marie (died 1940), French neurologist.	0
09 Sep 1915 William Foster & Co.	science	William Foster & Co. (technology) William Foster & Co. of Lincoln in England complete the first prototype military tank "Little Willie".	0
09 Sep 1923 Daniel Carleton Gajdusek	science	birth Daniel Carleton Gajdusek Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (died 2008), American virologist.	0
09 Sep 1941 Dennis Ritchie	science	birth Dennis Ritchie Dennis Ritchie (died 2011), American computer scientist.	0
09 Sep 1947 moth	science	moth (computer science) A moth lodged in a relay is found to be the cause of a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer, logged as "First actual case of bug being found."	0
09 Sep 1982 George Brownlee	science	George Brownlee (medicine) George Brownlee and colleagues at the University of Oxford publish their results of cloning human clotting factor IX.	0
09 Sep 2003 Edward Teller	science	death Edward Teller Edward Teller (b. 1908), physicist, inventor of the hydrogen bomb.	0

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