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Science on the 14th of November in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
14 Nov 1698 Eddystone Lighthouse	science	Eddystone Lighthouse (technology) First Eddystone Lighthouse illuminated, the first rock lighthouse in Europe.	0
14 Nov 1716 Gottfried Leibniz	science	death Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Leibniz, German scientist and mathematician (born 1646)	0
14 Nov 1746 Georg Steller	science	death Georg Steller Georg Steller, German naturalist (born 1709)	0
14 Nov 1765 Robert Fulton	science	birth Robert Fulton Robert Fulton, American engineer (died 1815)	0
14 Nov 1776 Henri Dutrochet	science	birth Henri Dutrochet Henri Dutrochet, French physician (died 1847)	0
14 Nov 1807 Auguste Laurent	science	birth Auguste Laurent Auguste Laurent, chemist (died 1853)	0
14 Nov 1829 Louis Nicolas Vauquelin	science	death Louis Nicolas Vauquelin Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (born 1763), chemist.	0
14 Nov 1837 Lucas Barrett	science	birth Lucas Barrett Lucas Barrett (died 1862), naturalist.	0
14 Nov 1845 Ulisse Dini	science	birth Ulisse Dini Ulisse Dini (died 1918), mathematician.	0
14 Nov 1870 Karl Weltzien	science	death Karl Weltzien Karl Weltzien (born 1813), German inorganic chemist.	0
14 Nov 1886 Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois	science	death Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, French mineralogist and geologist (born 1820).	0
14 Nov 1891 Frederick Banting	science	birth Frederick Banting Frederick Banting (died 1941), Canadian discoverer of insulin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923)	0
14 Nov 1912 Tung-Yen Lin	science	birth Tung-Yen Lin Tung-Yen Lin (died 2003), Chinese-born civil engineer.	0
14 Nov 1930 Ed White	science	birth Ed White Ed White (died in training accident 1967), astronaut.	0
14 Nov 1943 Frank Leverett	science	death Frank Leverett Frank Leverett (born 1859), American glaciologist.	0
14 Nov 1963 Icelandic	science	Icelandic (earth sciences) The Icelandic volcanic island of Surtsey appears above sea level.	0
14 Nov 1975 Martin Hairer	science	birth Martin Hairer Martin Hairer, Austrian-born mathematician.	0

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