Events
1867 - Publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery.
Births
1750 - Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist
1794 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist
1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist
1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist
1918 - Frederick Reines, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist
Deaths
1935 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1998 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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