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Events

1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.

1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.

Births

1745 - Philippe Pinel, French physician

1904 - George Stibitz, American scientist

1918 - Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1927 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1928 - Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer

Deaths

1831 - John Abernethy, English surgeon

1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1932 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician

2003 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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