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Science on the 28th of October in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
28 Oct 1536 Felix Plater	science	birth Felix Plater Felix Plater, Swiss physician (died 1614).	0
28 Oct 1703 Antoine Deparcieux	science	birth Antoine Deparcieux Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (died 1768)	0
28 Oct 1703 John Wallis	science	death John Wallis John Wallis, English mathematician (born 1616)	0
28 Oct 1755 Jacques Labillardière	science	birth Jacques Labillardière Jacques Labillardière, French naturalist (died 1834).	0
28 Oct 1794 Robert Liston	science	birth Robert Liston Robert Liston, surgeon (died 1847)	0
28 Oct 1794 John Smeaton	science	death John Smeaton John Smeaton, civil engineer (born 1724)	0
28 Oct 1841 Johan August Arfwedson	science	death Johan August Arfwedson Johan August Arfwedson (born 1792), Swedish chemist.	0
28 Oct 1844 Mary Katharine Brandegee	science	birth Mary Katharine Brandegee Mary Katharine Brandegee née Layne (died 1920), American botanist.	0
28 Oct 1868 American	science	American (technology) American inventor Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, for a form of electronic voting machine.	0
28 Oct 1898 French	science	French (medicine) French serial killer Joseph Vacher is convicted, based largely on forensic evidence presented by Alexandre Lacassagne.	0
28 Oct 1899 Ottmar Mergenthaler	science	death Ottmar Mergenthaler Ottmar Mergenthaler (born 1854), German American inventor.	0
28 Oct 1914 Jonas Salk	science	birth Jonas Salk Jonas Salk (died 1995), American medical researcher.	0
28 Oct 1918 Ulisse Dini	science	death Ulisse Dini Ulisse Dini (born 1845), mathematician.	0
28 Oct 1955 Bill Gates	science	birth Bill Gates Bill Gates, American software designer and entrepreneur.	0
28 Oct 1994 Calvin Souther Fuller	science	death Calvin Souther Fuller Calvin Souther Fuller, American physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories.	0
28 Oct 1998 Tommy Flowers	science	death Tommy Flowers Tommy Flowers (b. 1905), computer engineer.	0
28 Oct 2005 Richard Smalley	science	death Richard Smalley Richard Smalley (b. 1943), Nobelaureate in Chemistry (1996) for the discovery of a new form of carbon, Buckminsterfullerene.	0

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