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Science on the 16th of September in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
16 Sep 1635 Metius	science	death Metius Metius, Dutch mathematician (born 1571)	0
16 Sep 1725 Nicolas Desmarest	science	birth Nicolas Desmarest Nicolas Desmarest, French naturalist (died 1815)	0
16 Sep 1736 Gabriel Fahrenheit	science	death Gabriel Fahrenheit Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist and engineer (born 1686)	0
16 Sep 1804 Squire Whipple	science	birth Squire Whipple Squire Whipple, civil engineer (died 1888)	0
16 Sep 1846 Anna Kingsford	science	birth Anna Kingsford Anna Kingsford (died 1888), English physician, anti-vivisectionist and vegetarian.	0
16 Sep 1848 William Cranch Bond	science	William Cranch Bond (astronomy) William Cranch Bond and William Lassell discover Hyperion, Saturn's moon.	0
16 Sep 1893 Albert Szent-Györgyi	science	birth Albert Szent-Györgyi Albert Szent-Györgyi (died 1986), Hungarian physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
16 Sep 1932 Ronald Ross	science	death Ronald Ross Sir Ronald Ross (born 1857), British physiologist.	0
16 Sep 1946 James Hopwood Jeans	science	death James Hopwood Jeans James Hopwood Jeans (born 1877), mathematician and scientist.	0
16 Sep 1953 widescreen	science	widescreen (technology) Epic film The Robe is released in the United States as the first widescreen anamorphic format movie, filmed in CinemaScope.	0
16 Sep 1969 Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr.	science	death Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr. (born 1887), American conservationist.	0
16 Sep 1977 percutaneous coronary intervention	science	percutaneous coronary intervention (medicine) The first percutaneous coronary intervention on a sentient patient is performed by cardiologist Andreas Gruentzig in Zurich.	0

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