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February 9th

1752 - Death of Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist

1775 - Birth of Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician

1880 - Brith of Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician

1910 - Birth of Jacques Monod, French biochemist and Nobel laureate

1925 - Birth of Burkhard Heim, German physicist

1963 - Birth of Brian Greene, American physicist

1979 - Death of Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate

1994 - Death of Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and Nobel laureate

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