Today in Science

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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