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Science on the 16th of December in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
16 Dec 1529 Laurent Joubert	science	birth Laurent Joubert Laurent Joubert, French physician (died 1582)	0
16 Dec 1575 Valdivia earthquake	science	Valdivia earthquake (geology) Valdivia earthquake in Chile.	0
16 Dec 1625 Erhard Weigel	science	birth Erhard Weigel Erhard Weigel, German mathematician and scientific populariser (died 1699)	0
16 Dec 1707 last recorded eruption	science	last recorded eruption (geology) Beginning of the last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.	0
16 Dec 1771 French	science	French French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (28) marries Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, not yet 14 and daughter of his senior in the Ferme générale.	0
16 Dec 1783 Arima Yoriyuki	science	death Arima Yoriyuki Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician (born 1714)	0
16 Dec 1805 Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire	science	birth Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, zoologist (died 1861)	0
16 Dec 1809 Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy	science	death Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (born 1755)	0
16 Dec 1858 Richard Bright	science	death Richard Bright Richard Bright (born 1789), English physician.	0
16 Dec 1869 Bertha Lamme	science	birth Bertha Lamme Bertha Lamme (died 1943), American electrical engineer.	0
16 Dec 1901 Margaret Mead	science	birth Margaret Mead Margaret Mead (died 1978), American cultural anthropologist.	0
16 Dec 1905 Piet Hein	science	birth Piet Hein Piet Hein (died 1996), mathematician	0
16 Dec 1917 Arthur C. Clarke	science	birth Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke (died 2008), English-born science fiction author and inventor.	0
16 Dec 1929 R100	science	R100 (aviation) The British airship R100 makes its maiden flight, incorporating Barnes Wallis' pioneering use of a geodetic airframe.	0
16 Dec 1940 Eugène Dubois	science	death Eugène Dubois Eugène Dubois (born 1858), Dutch paleoanthropologist.	0
16 Dec 1947 Martyn Poliakoff	science	birth Martyn Poliakoff Martyn Poliakoff, British chemist and popularizer of science.	0
16 Dec 1969 Adam Riess	science	birth Adam Riess Adam Riess, American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2011.	0
16 Dec 1977 cochlear implant	science	cochlear implant (medicine) The first microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant, developed by Ingeborg Hochmair and Erwin Hochmair, is implanted.	0
16 Dec 1980 Hellmuth Walter	science	death Hellmuth Walter Hellmuth Walter (b. 1900), German-born mechanical engineer and inventor.	0

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