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By jlynch on February 27, 2007.

February 28th

1704 - Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer

1857 - Death of André Dumont, Belgian geologist

1878 - Birth of Pierre Fatou, French mathematician

1896 - Birth of Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate

1901 - Birth of Linus Pauling, American chemist, Nobel laureate

1915 - Birth of Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, Nobel laureate

1929 - Death of Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician

1930 - Birth of Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel laureate

1935 - Nylon is discovered by Wallace Carothers.

1936 - Death of Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1939 - Birth of Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate

1948 - Birth of Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel laureate

1953 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA

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