Events
1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium.
Births
1635 - Robert Hooke, English scientist
1720 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist
1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 - Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist
1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1997 - Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer
2002 - Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist
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