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02 Oct 1568
Marin Getaldić |
birth Marin Getaldić Marin Getaldić, Ragusan mathematician (died 1626) |
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02 Oct 1608
Hans Lippershey |
Hans Lippershey (technology) Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first known telescope to the government of the Dutch Republic. |
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02 Oct 1804
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot |
death Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, engineer (born 1725) |
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02 Oct 1836
Charles Darwin |
Charles Darwin (biology) Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England, aboard HMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution. |
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02 Oct 1846
Benjamin Waterhouse |
death Benjamin Waterhouse Benjamin Waterhouse (born 1754), American physician. |
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02 Oct 1852
William Ramsay |
birth William Ramsay William Ramsay (died 1916), Scottish winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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02 Oct 1853
François Arago |
death François Arago François Arago (born 1786), French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. |
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02 Oct 1877
Berlin |
Berlin (medicine) Berlin urologist Maximilian Nitze and Viennese instrument-maker Josef Leiter introduce the first practical cystourethroscope with an electric light source. |
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02 Oct 1883
Karl von Terzaghi |
birth Karl von Terzaghi Karl von Terzaghi (died 1963), Austrian "father of soil mechanics". |
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02 Oct 1899
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (medicine) The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is established by Patrick Manson at the Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital. |
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02 Oct 1906
Willy Ley |
birth Willy Ley Willy Ley (died 1969), scientific populariser. |
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02 Oct 1907
Alexander R. Todd |
birth Alexander R. Todd Alexander R. Todd (died 1997), Scottish-born biochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate. |
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02 Oct 1917
Christian de Duve |
birth Christian de Duve Christian de Duve (died 2013), English-born Belgian biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
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02 Oct 1925
John Logie Baird |
John Logie Baird (technology) John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image, in London. |
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02 Oct 1926
Michio Suzuki |
birth Michio Suzuki Michio Suzuki (died 1998), Japanese mathematician. |
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02 Oct 1927
Svante Arrhenius |
death Svante Arrhenius Svante Arrhenius (born 1859), Swedish winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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02 Oct 1946
Ignacy Mościcki |
death Ignacy Mościcki Ignacy Mościcki (born 1867), chemist and President of Poland. |
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02 Oct 1947
P. D. Ouspensky |
death P. D. Ouspensky P. D. Ouspensky (born 1878), Russian-born philosopher. |
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02 Oct 1955
Nancy Rothwell |
birth Nancy Rothwell Nancy Rothwell, English physiologist. |
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02 Oct 1958
Marie Stopes |
death Marie Stopes Marie Stopes (born 1880), Scottish-born paleobotanist and pioneer of birth control |
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02 Oct 1963
Olga Lepeshinskaya |
death Olga Lepeshinskaya Olga Lepeshinskaya (born 1871), Soviet Lysenkoist biologist. |
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