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1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Births
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, Nobel laureate
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, Nobel laureate
1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Nobel laureate
1912 - Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor
1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer
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