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Science on the 10th of October in history

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Date	Type	Text
10 Oct 1528 Adam Lonicer	science	birth Adam Lonicer Adam Lonicer, German botanist, naturalist and physician (died 1586)	0
10 Oct 1659 Abel Tasman	science	death Abel Tasman Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (born 1603)	0
10 Oct 1708 David Gregory	science	death David Gregory David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (born 1659)	0
10 Oct 1731 Henry Cavendish	science	birth Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish, English scientist (died 1810)	0
10 Oct 1802 Hugh Miller	science	birth Hugh Miller Hugh Miller, Scottish geologist (suicide 1856)	0
10 Oct 1817 C. H. D. Buys Ballot	science	birth C. H. D. Buys Ballot C. H. D. Buys Ballot (died 1890), Dutch meteorologist.	0
10 Oct 1829 Maria Elizabetha Jacson	science	death Maria Elizabetha Jacson Maria Elizabetha Jacson (born 1755), botanist.	0
10 Oct 1834 Thomas Say	science	death Thomas Say Thomas Say (born 1787), American naturalist.	0
10 Oct 1846 William Lassell	science	William Lassell (astronomy) William Lassell discovers Triton, Neptune's largest moon.	0
10 Oct 1881 Richard D'Oyly Carte	science	Richard D'Oyly Carte (technology) Richard D'Oyly Carte's Savoy Theatre opens in London, the world's first public building to be fully lit by electricity, using Joseph Swan's incandescent light bulbs. The stage is first lit electrically on December 28.	0
10 Oct 1903 Bei Shizhang	science	birth Bei Shizhang Bei Shizhang (died 2009), Chinese biologist and founder of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.	0
10 Oct 1908 Min Chueh Chang	science	birth Min Chueh Chang Min Chueh Chang (died 1991), Chinese-born embryologist.	0
10 Oct 1913 Remy Chauvin	science	birth Remy Chauvin Remy Chauvin (died 2009), French biologist and entomologist.	0
10 Oct 1926 Clara H. Hasse	science	death Clara H. Hasse Clara H. Hasse, botanist	0
10 Oct 1930 Yves Chauvin	science	birth Yves Chauvin Yves Chauvin (died 2015), Belgian-born chemist and Nobel Prize winner.	0
10 Oct 1939 Neil Sloane	science	birth Neil Sloane Neil Sloane, Welsh-born American mathematician.	0
10 Oct 1998 Konstantin Petrzhak	science	death Konstantin Petrzhak Konstantin Petrzhak (b. 1907), physicist.	0

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