February 17th
1723 - Birth of Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
1792 - Birth of Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist
1796 - Birth of Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician
1874 - Death of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician
1888 - Birth of Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
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Hans von Storch is a bit hard to pin down on GW: unquestionably a good scientist, but sounding oddly skeptical of late.
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Births
1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
March 6th
1787 - Birth of Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist