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Science on the 11th of December in history

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Date	Type	Text
11 Dec 1741 Chelyabinsk meteor	science	Chelyabinsk meteor (astronomy) a "Fire-ball" and explosion heard over southern England, about 11 a.m. "a countryman ... saw a flash of Lightening Before he heard the Noise ... The sound was double ... a Ball of Fire ... took its Course to the East ... over Westminster ... it divided into Two Heads [and] left a Train of Smoke ... which continued ascending for 20 minutes". The description is reminiscent of the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013.	0
11 Dec 1781 David Brewster	science	birth David Brewster David Brewster, Scottish physicist (died 1868)	0
11 Dec 1796 Johann Daniel Titius	science	death Johann Daniel Titius Johann Daniel Titius, German astronomer (born 1729)	0
11 Dec 1799 strata	science	strata (geology) Smith draws up a table of strata round Bath.	0
11 Dec 1806 Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich	science	birth Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (died 1886)	0
11 Dec 1843 Robert Koch	science	birth Robert Koch Robert Koch (died 1910), German physician, famous for the discovery of the tubercle bacillus (1882) and the cholera bacillus (1883) and for his development of Koch's postulates; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905	0
11 Dec 1882 Max Born	science	birth Max Born Max Born (died 1970), physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954.	0
11 Dec 1896 William Preece	science	William Preece (technology) William Preece introduces Guglielmo Marconi's work in wireless telegraphy to the general public at a lecture, "Telegraphy without Wires", at the Toynbee Hall in London.	0
11 Dec 1925 Paul Greengard	science	birth Paul Greengard Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	0
11 Dec 1946 patent	science	patent (computer science) Frederick Williams receives a patent for a random-access memory device.	0
11 Dec 1950 typical antipsychotic	science	typical antipsychotic (medicine) The typical antipsychotic Chlorpromazine is first synthesized.	0
11 Dec 1950 Leslie Comrie	science	death Leslie Comrie Leslie Comrie (born 1893), New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer.	0

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