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Births 1781 - Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist 1865 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist 1910 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate 1925 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist 1963 - Brian Greene, American physicist Deaths 1752 -…

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Births 1892 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate 1893 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer 1896 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate Deaths 1953 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist 1982 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish…

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Births 1832 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist 1852 - William Ramsay, Scottish chemist 1907 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist and Nobel Prize laureate 1914 - Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist 1917 - Christian de Duve, English-born biologist and Nobel Prize…

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Births 1586 - NiccolÃ² Zucchi, Italian astronomer 1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist 1863 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist 1890 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist 1920 - George Porter, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Deaths 1771 - Giovanni Battista…

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