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1704 – Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer
1857 – Death of André Dumont, Belgian geologist
1878 – Birth of Pierre Fatou, French mathematician
1896 – Birth of Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate
1901 – Birth of Linus Pauling, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1915 – Birth of Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, Nobel laureate
1929 – Death of Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician
1930 – Birth of Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1935 – Nylon is discovered by Wallace Carothers.
1936 – Death of Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1939 – Birth of Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1948 – Birth of Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA