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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2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
Births
1637 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist
1665 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician
1785 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist
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February 14th
1468 - Birth of Johann Werner, German mathematician
1848 - Birth of Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer
1869 - Birth of Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate
1894 - Death of Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician
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February 19th
1473 - Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer
1526 - Birth of Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist
1553 - Death of Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician
1660 - Birth of Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist
1799 - Death of Jean-…
Events
1961 - Lawrencium is first synthesized at the University of California.
2000 - NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
Births
1848 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer
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