Births
1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist
1864 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate
1894 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist
1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1911 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1928 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer
1866 - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist
1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist
1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate
1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate
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