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Science on the 27th of October in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
27 Oct 1553 Michael Servetus	science	death Michael Servetus Michael Servetus, Aragonese polymath (b. 1511) (executed for heresy)	0
27 Oct 1675 Gilles de Roberval	science	death Gilles de Roberval Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (born 1602)	0
27 Oct 1678 Pierre Raymond de Montmort	science	birth Pierre Raymond de Montmort Pierre Raymond de Montmort, mathematician (died 1719)	0
27 Oct 1726 Caleb Threlkeld	science	Caleb Threlkeld (botany) Caleb Threlkeld publishes Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta in Dublin, the first flora of Ireland.	0
27 Oct 1728 James Cook	science	birth James Cook James Cook, English explorer (died 1779)	0
27 Oct 1761 Matthew Baillie	science	birth Matthew Baillie Matthew Baillie (died 1823), Scottish-born pathologist	0
27 Oct 1763 William Maclure	science	birth William Maclure William Maclure, Scottish American geologist (died 1840)	0
27 Oct 1812 Abraham Dee Bartlett	science	birth Abraham Dee Bartlett Abraham Dee Bartlett, English zoologist (died 1897)	0
27 Oct 1882 Christian Heinrich von Nagel	science	death Christian Heinrich von Nagel Christian Heinrich von Nagel (born 1803), geometer.	0
27 Oct 1896 H. Newell Martin	science	death H. Newell Martin H. Newell Martin (born 1848), British physiologist.	0
27 Oct 1899 Nikolay Dollezhal	science	birth Nikolay Dollezhal Nikolay Dollezhal (died 2000), a key figure in Soviet atomic bomb project and chief designer of nuclear reactors.	0
27 Oct 1927 Mikhail Postnikov	science	birth Mikhail Postnikov Mikhail Postnikov (died 2004), Soviet mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology.	0
27 Oct 1942 Alfred Baker	science	death Alfred Baker Alfred Baker, Canadian mathematician (born 1848)	0
27 Oct 1951 Carlos Frenk	science	birth Carlos Frenk Carlos Frenk, Mexican cosmologist.	0
27 Oct 1968 Lise Meitner	science	death Lise Meitner Lise Meitner (born 1878), German physicist, discoverer in 1939, with Otto Hahn, of nuclear fission.	0
27 Oct 2004 Indonesia	science	Indonesia (anthropology) Remains of a previously unknown species of human is discovered in Indonesia. Named Homo floresiensis, the hominin is a dwarfed version that lived 18,000 years ago on the island of Flores.	0

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