February 12th
1612 - Death of Christopher Clavius, German astronomer
1637 - Birth of Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist
1665 - Birth of Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician
1785 - Birth of Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist
1788 - Birth of Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher
1799 - Death of Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist
1804 - Birth of Heinrich Lenz, German physicist
1809 - Birth of Charles Darwin, English naturalist
1916 - Death of Richard Dedekind, German mathematician
1918 - Birth of Julian Schwinger, American physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate
2001 - NEAR Shoemaker lands on 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
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