Events
1950 - Researchers announce the creation of Californium.
Births
1870 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist
1881 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - David Peakall, British scientist
Deaths
1764 - George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer
1846 - Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer
1853 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physician and mathematician
1956 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1983 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
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