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Science on the 23rd of December in history

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Date	Type	Text
23 Dec 1534 Otto Brunfels	science	death Otto Brunfels Otto Brunfels, German botanist (born c. 1488)	0
23 Dec 1683 François Nicole	science	birth François Nicole François Nicole, French mathematician (died 1758)	0
23 Dec 1749 Mark Catesby	science	death Mark Catesby Mark Catesby, English naturalist (born 1683)	0
23 Dec 1763 Thomas Bayes	science	Thomas Bayes (mathematics) Thomas Bayes' solution to a problem of "inverse probability" is presented posthumously in his "Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances" read by Richard Price to the Royal Society, containing a statement of a special case of Bayes' theorem.	0
23 Dec 1805 Pehr Osbeck	science	death Pehr Osbeck Pehr Osbeck, Swedish botanist and explorer, pupil of Linnaeus (born 1723)	0
23 Dec 1834 Joseph Hansom	science	Joseph Hansom (technology) English architect Joseph Hansom patents the Hansom cab.	0
23 Dec 1900 Reginald Fessenden	science	Reginald Fessenden (physics) Reginald Fessenden, experimenting with a high-frequency spark transmitter, successfully transmits speech over a distance of about 1.6 kilometers (one mile), from Cobb Island, Maryland, which appears to have been the first audio radio transmission.	0
23 Dec 1911 Niels Kaj Jerne	science	birth Niels Kaj Jerne Niels Kaj Jerne (died 1994), English-born Danish winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
23 Dec 1933 Akihito	science	birth Akihito Akihito, ichthyologist and Emperor of Japan.	0
23 Dec 1936 nerve agent	science	nerve agent (chemistry) The first nerve agent, Tabun, is discovered (accidentally) by a research team headed by Dr Gerhard Schrader of IG Farben in Germany.	0

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