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February 18th

901 - Death of Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician

1745 - Birth of Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist

1788 - Death of John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist

1838 - Birth of Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist

1851 - Death of Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician

1924 - Birth of Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist

1957 - Death of Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer

1967 - Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist

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