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17 Dec 1706
Émilie du Châtelet |
birth Émilie du Châtelet Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (died 1749) |
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17 Dec 1778
Humphry Davy |
birth Humphry Davy Humphry Davy, English chemist (died 1829) |
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17 Dec 1842
Sophus Lie |
birth Sophus Lie Sophus Lie (died 1899), mathematician. |
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17 Dec 1857
Francis Beaufort |
death Francis Beaufort Francis Beaufort (born 1774) British hydrographer. |
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17 Dec 1861
Arthur E. Kennelly |
birth Arthur E. Kennelly Arthur E. Kennelly (died 1939), Irish American electrical engineer. |
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17 Dec 1886
English |
English (exploration) English adventurer Thomas Stevens concludes the first circumnavigation by bicycle in Yokohama, having set out on his penny-farthing from San Francisco in 1884. |
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17 Dec 1907
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin |
death William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (born 1824), physicist. |
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17 Dec 1917
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson |
death Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (born 1836), English physician. |
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17 Dec 1947
J. N. Brønsted |
death J. N. Brønsted J. N. Brønsted (born 1879), Danish physical chemist. |
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17 Dec 1948
Smithsonian Institution |
Smithsonian Institution (history of science) The original Wright Flyer goes on display in the Smithsonian Institution. |
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17 Dec 1953
NTSC |
NTSC (technology) The NTSC color television standard is agreed for the United States. |
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17 Dec 1964
Victor Franz Hess |
death Victor Franz Hess Victor Franz Hess (born 1883), American physicist. |
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17 Dec 1997
R. V. Jones |
death R. V. Jones R. V. Jones (b. 1911), physicist, expert in electronic military defence. |
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17 Dec 1998
Claudia Benton |
death Claudia Benton Claudia Benton (b. c.1959), pediatric neurologist. |
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