Events
1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids:
a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
Births
1710 - James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer
1849 - Felix Klein, German mathematician
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician
1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer
1931 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician
Deaths
1744 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer
1770 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist
1840 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician
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