Births
1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist
1895 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist
1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist
1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer
1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate
1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate
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Events
1895 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates the first radio receiver.
Events
1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.
Births
Births
1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist
Births
1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist
1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist