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1909 – Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Births
1852 – Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, Nobel laureate
1871 – Ernest Rutherford, Nobel laureate
1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Nobel laureate
1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor
1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1940 – J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel laureate
1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist
2004 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer