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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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