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Science on the 18th of October in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
18 Oct 1564 Johannes Acronius Frisius	science	death Johannes Acronius Frisius Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (born 1520)	0
18 Oct 1616 Nicholas Culpeper	science	birth Nicholas Culpeper Nicholas Culpeper, English herbalist (died 1654)	0
18 Oct 1640 Fermat	science	Fermat (mathematics) Fermat states his "little theorem" in a letter to Frénicle de Bessy: if p is a prime number, then for any integer a, a − a will be evenly divisible by p.	0
18 Oct 1645 Daniel Whistler	science	Daniel Whistler (medicine) English physician Daniel Whistler presents the first printed pediatric text on rickets, De Morbo puerili Anglorum, quern patrio idiomate indigense vocant "The Rickets", as his MD thesis at Leiden University.	0
18 Oct 1770 Radcliffe Infirmary	science	Radcliffe Infirmary (medicine) Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England, admits its first patients.	0
18 Oct 1779 Patrick d'Arcy	science	death Patrick d'Arcy Patrick d'Arcy, Irish-born mathematician (born 1725)	0
18 Oct 1845 Dominique, comte de Cassini	science	death Dominique, comte de Cassini Dominique, comte de Cassini (born 1748), astronomer.	0
18 Oct 1853 Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim	science	death Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (born 1771), German naturalist.	0
18 Oct 1871 Charles Babbage	science	death Charles Babbage Charles Babbage (born 1791), English mathematician and inventor of computing machines.	0
18 Oct 1899 Janet Vaughan	science	birth Janet Vaughan Janet Vaughan (died 1993), English physiologist.	0
18 Oct 1906 German	science	German (technology) German inventor Arthur Korn demonstrates the transmission of a photograph electronically over a distance of 1800 km using his Bildetelegraph or phototelautograph system.	0
18 Oct 1931 Thomas Edison	science	death Thomas Edison Thomas Edison (born 1847), American inventor.	0
18 Oct 1960 Craig Mello	science	birth Craig Mello Craig Mello, American biologist.	0
18 Oct 1967 Venera 4	science	Venera 4 (astronomy and space ) The Soviet Venera 4 probe descends through the Venusian atmosphere, which it analyzes.	0
18 Oct 1980 Hans Ferdinand Mayer	science	death Hans Ferdinand Mayer Hans Ferdinand Mayer (b. 1895), German physicist.	0
18 Oct 2002 Nikolai Rukavishnikov	science	death Nikolai Rukavishnikov Nikolai Rukavishnikov (b. 1932), cosmonaut.	0

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