February 5th
1608 - Birth of Gaspar Schott, German mathematician
1790 - Death of William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist
1795 - Birth of Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist
1914 - Birth of Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize Laureate
1915 - Birth of Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize Laureate
1977 - Death of Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist
1992 - Death of Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist
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