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Science on the 15th of December in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
15 Dec 1648 Gregory King	science	birth Gregory King Gregory King, English statistician (died 1712)	0
15 Dec 1673 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne	science	death Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English natural philosopher (born 1623)	0
15 Dec 1745 Johann Gottfried Koehler	science	birth Johann Gottfried Koehler Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (died 1801)	0
15 Dec 1771 Benjamin Stillingfleet	science	death Benjamin Stillingfleet Benjamin Stillingfleet, English botanist (born 1702)	0
15 Dec 1802 János Bolyai	science	birth János Bolyai János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (died 1860)	0
15 Dec 1816 Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope	science	death Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, engineer (born 1753)	0
15 Dec 1817 Giovanni Battista Guglielmini	science	death Giovanni Battista Guglielmini Abate Giovanni Battista Guglielmini (born 1763), Bolognese physicist.	0
15 Dec 1821 Société de géographie	science	Société de géographie (geography and explor) The world's first geographical society, the Société de géographie, is established in Paris.	0
15 Dec 1832 Gustave Eiffel	science	birth Gustave Eiffel Gustave Eiffel (died 1923), structural engineer.	0
15 Dec 1834 Charles Augustus Young	science	birth Charles Augustus Young Charles Augustus Young (died 1908), astronomer.	0
15 Dec 1852 Henri Becquerel	science	birth Henri Becquerel Henri Becquerel (died 1908), French physicist.	0
15 Dec 1857 George Cayley	science	death George Cayley George Cayley (born 1773), English aviation pioneer.	0
15 Dec 1916 Maurice Wilkins	science	birth Maurice Wilkins Maurice Wilkins (died 2004), New Zealand-born English molecular biologist, co-discoverer of the nucleic acid double helix structure in 1953 using X-ray diffraction, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
15 Dec 1958 Arthur L. Schawlow	science	Arthur L. Schawlow (technology) Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes of Bell Laboratories publish a paper in Physical Review Letters setting out the principles of the optical laser.	0
15 Dec 1958 Wolfgang Pauli	science	death Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Pauli (born 1900), Austrian theoretical physicist	0
15 Dec 1966 Janus	science	Janus (astronomy and space ) Janus, one of the moons of Saturn, is identified by Audouin Dollfus (it had been first photographed on October 29).	0
15 Dec 1994 Fukuda	science	Fukuda (biology and medicine) Publication of the "Fukuda" clinical description of chronic fatigue syndrome.	0

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