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03 Nov 1633
Bernardino Ramazzini |
birth Bernardino Ramazzini Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician, a founder of occupational medicine (died 1714) |
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03 Nov 1648
John Bainbridge |
death John Bainbridge John Bainbridge, English astronomer (born 1582) |
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03 Nov 1736
Christiaan Brunings |
birth Christiaan Brunings Christiaan Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer (died 1805),n, j |
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03 Nov 1815
Humphry Davy |
Humphry Davy (technology) Sir Humphry Davy announces his discovery of the Davy lamp as a coal mining safety lamp. |
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03 Nov 1841
Eugen Warming |
birth Eugen Warming Eugen Warming (died 1924), botanist and founder of ecology. |
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03 Nov 1859
Alfred Russel Wallace |
Alfred Russel Wallace (biology) Alfred Russel Wallace's paper "On the Zoological geography of the Malay Archipelago", introducing the Wallace Line, is read by Charles Darwin to the Linnean Society of London. |
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03 Nov 1893
Edward Adelbert Doisy |
birth Edward Adelbert Doisy Edward Adelbert Doisy (died 1986), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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03 Nov 1896
Eugen Baumann |
death Eugen Baumann Eugen Baumann (born 1846), chemist. |
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03 Nov 1906
Alois Alzheimer |
Alois Alzheimer (medicine) A speech given by Alois Alzheimer for the first time presents the pathology and clinical symptoms of pre-senile dementia together; the condition will rapidly become known as Alzheimer's disease. |
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03 Nov 1906
Carl Benjamin Boyer |
birth Carl Benjamin Boyer Carl Benjamin Boyer (died 1976), historian of mathematics. |
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03 Nov 1918
Aleksandr Lyapunov |
death Aleksandr Lyapunov Aleksandr Lyapunov (born 1857), mathematician and physicist. |
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03 Nov 1942
Ernest Gibbins |
death Ernest Gibbins Ernest Gibbins, English entomologist, speared by Ugandan tribesmen amongst whom he was working (born 1900). |
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03 Nov 1950
James Rothman |
birth James Rothman James Rothman, American cell biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013. |
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03 Nov 1957
Wilhelm Reich |
death Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich (born 1897), psychoanalyst. |
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03 Nov 1962
personal computer |
personal computer (computer science) The earliest recorded use of the term "personal computer" features in The New York Times in a story about John Mauchly's speech the day before to the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. Mauchly, "inventor of some of the original room-size computers", says that "in a decade or so" everyone would have their own computer with "exchangeable wafer-thin data storage files to provide inexhaustible memories and answer most problems". He is quoted as saying, "There is no reason to suppose the average boy or girl cannot be master of a personal computer." |
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03 Nov 1973
Mariner program |
Mariner program (astronomy and space ) Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury (on March 29, 1974 it became the first space probe to reach that planet). |