January 25th
1627 - Birth of Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
1736 - Birth of Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician
1794 - Birth of François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist
1796 - Birth of William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist
1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1900 - Birth of Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
1917 - Birth of Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1925 - Death of Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist
1949 - Birth of Paul Nurse, British biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1994 - Death of Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician
2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
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