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23 Dec 1534
Otto Brunfels |
death Otto Brunfels Otto Brunfels, German botanist (born c. 1488) |
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23 Dec 1683
François Nicole |
birth François Nicole François Nicole, French mathematician (died 1758) |
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23 Dec 1749
Mark Catesby |
death Mark Catesby Mark Catesby, English naturalist (born 1683) |
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23 Dec 1763
Thomas Bayes |
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. |
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23 Dec 1805
Pehr Osbeck |
death Pehr Osbeck Pehr Osbeck, Swedish botanist and explorer, pupil of Linnaeus (born 1723) |
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23 Dec 1834
Joseph Hansom |
Joseph Hansom (technology) English architect Joseph Hansom patents the Hansom cab. |
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23 Dec 1900
Reginald Fessenden |
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. |
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23 Dec 1911
Niels Kaj Jerne |
birth Niels Kaj Jerne Niels Kaj Jerne (died 1994), English-born Danish winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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23 Dec 1933
Akihito |
birth Akihito Akihito, ichthyologist and Emperor of Japan. |
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23 Dec 1936
nerve agent |
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. |
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