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Science on the 26th of December in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
26 Dec 1624 Simon Marius	science	death Simon Marius Simon Marius, German astronomer (born 1573)	0
26 Dec 1636 Justine Siegemund	science	birth Justine Siegemund Justine Siegemund, German midwife (died 1705)	0
26 Dec 1742 Ignaz von Born	science	birth Ignaz von Born Ignaz von Born, Hungarian metallurgist (died 1791).	0
26 Dec 1756 Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon	science	birth Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, French naturalist (died 1825)	0
26 Dec 1766 William Goforth	science	birth William Goforth William Goforth, American physician and paleontologist (died 1817)	0
26 Dec 1780 Mary Somerville	science	birth Mary Somerville Mary Somerville, British scientific writer (died 1872).	0
26 Dec 1783 Louis-Sébastien Lenormand	science	Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (aviation) Louis-Sébastien Lenormand makes the first ever recorded public demonstration of a parachute descent by jumping from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in France using his rigid-framed model which he intends as a form of fire escape.	0
26 Dec 1791 Charles Babbage	science	birth Charles Babbage Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines (died 1871)	0
26 Dec 1825 Felix Hoppe-Seyler	science	birth Felix Hoppe-Seyler Felix Hoppe-Seyler (died 1895), German physiologist.	0
26 Dec 1867 John Bradfield	science	birth John Bradfield John Bradfield (died 1943), Australian civil engineer.	0
26 Dec 1886 Theodor von Oppolzer	science	death Theodor von Oppolzer Theodor von Oppolzer, Austrian astronomer (born 1841)	0
26 Dec 1890 Heinrich Schliemann	science	death Heinrich Schliemann Heinrich Schliemann (born 1822), German archaeologist.	0
26 Dec 1898 Marie	science	Marie (chemistry) Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call radium. It is the only moment where 5 elements are discovered the same year.	0
26 Dec 1918 William Hampton Patton	science	death William Hampton Patton William Hampton Patton (born 1853), entomologist.	0
26 Dec 1997 Cahit Arf	science	death Cahit Arf Cahit Arf (b. 1910), Turkish mathematician.	0
26 Dec 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami	science	Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (earth sciences) Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.	0
26 Dec 2004 Frank Pantridge	science	death Frank Pantridge Frank Pantridge (b. 1916), cardiologist.	0

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