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1899 – Birth of Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist
1904 – Birth of Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist
1923 – Birth of David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 – Birth of Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
1936 – Death of Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14
1942 – Birth of Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1989 – Death of Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer
1989 – Death of Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1998 – Death of George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
February 27, 2007