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Science on the 17th of October in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
17 Oct 1709 François Mauriceau	science	death François Mauriceau François Mauriceau, French obstetrician (born 1637)	0
17 Oct 1744 Andrew Duncan	science	birth Andrew Duncan Andrew Duncan, Scottish physician (died 1828)	0
17 Oct 1757 René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur	science	death René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French physicist (born 1683)	0
17 Oct 1780 William Cookworthy	science	death William Cookworthy William Cookworthy, English chemist (born 1705)	0
17 Oct 1813 Georg Büchner	science	birth Georg Büchner Georg Büchner, Hessian-born writer and anatomist (died 1837).	0
17 Oct 1817 Alfred Des Cloizeaux	science	birth Alfred Des Cloizeaux Alfred Des Cloizeaux (died 1897), French mineralogist.	0
17 Oct 1833 Paul Bert	science	birth Paul Bert Paul Bert (died 1886), physiologist.	0
17 Oct 1842 Gustaf Retzius	science	birth Gustaf Retzius Gustaf Retzius (died 1919), anatomist.	0
17 Oct 1850 James Young	science	James Young (chemistry) James Young patents a method of distilling kerosene from coal.	0
17 Oct 1855 Henry Bessemer	science	Henry Bessemer (technology) Henry Bessemer files his patent for the Bessemer process of steelmaking.	0
17 Oct 1865 Joseph-François Malgaigne	science	death Joseph-François Malgaigne Joseph-François Malgaigne (born 1806), French surgeon.	0
17 Oct 1887 Gustav Kirchhoff	science	death Gustav Kirchhoff Gustav Kirchhoff (born 1824), German physicist.	0
17 Oct 1920 Reginald Farrer	science	death Reginald Farrer Reginald Farrer, English botanist (born 1880).	0
17 Oct 1930 Robert Atkins	science	birth Robert Atkins Dr. Robert Atkins (died 2003), American nutritionist.	0
17 Oct 1931 Alfons Maria Jakob	science	death Alfons Maria Jakob Alfons Maria Jakob (born 1884), German neuropathologist.	0
17 Oct 1934 Santiago Ramón y Cajal	science	death Santiago Ramón y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal (born 1852), Spanish winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
17 Oct 1978 James Burke	science	James Burke (history of science) James Burke's history of science series Connections first airs, on BBC Television in the United Kingdom (with accompanying book).	0
17 Oct 1985 House of Lords	science	House of Lords (medicine) The British House of Lords decides the legal case of Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority which sets the significant precedent of Gillick competence, i.e. that a child of 16 or under may be competent to consent to contraception or – by extension – other medical treatment without requiring parental permission or knowledge.	0
17 Oct 1990 Hans Freudenthal	science	death Hans Freudenthal Hans Freudenthal (b. 1905), Dutch mathematician.	0

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