February 22nd
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1705 - Birth of Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist
1731 - Death of Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist
1796 - Birth of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician
1817 - Birth of Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician
1849 - Birth of Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician
1857 - Birth of Heinrich Hertz, German physicist
1875 - Death of Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist
1878 - Birth of Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist
1879 - Birth of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist
1880 - Birth of Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician
1902 - Birth of Fritz Strassmann, German physicist
1914 - Birth of Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1936 - Birth of J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1962 - Birth of Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist
1997 - In Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
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