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1986 Death - Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92 1986 Death - Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87 1961 Event - Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36 1961 Event - Discoverer 25 launched 1960 Event - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space 1959 Event - Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit 1959 Event - Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit) 1959 Event - USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit 1959 Event - Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit 1959 Death - Mohammed Zakaria Ghonein, discoverer of 6,000 yr old pyramid, dies 1952 Death - Antonia Maury, discoverer (supergiant, giant and dwarf stars), dies 1950 Death - Karl G Jansky, Czechoslovakian discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies at 44 1942 Birthday - Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer, Titanic in 1985 1910 Death - Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies 1910 Death - William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies 1907 Birthday - Edwin M McMillan, U.S., physicist/discoverer plutonium, Nobel prize 1905 Birthday - Karl Jansky, Czechoslovakia, discoverer, cosmic radio emissions in 1932 1889 Birthday - Edwin Hubble, astronomer, discoverer of galaxies, red shift 1875 Death - Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies 1867 Birthday - Charles Fabry, discoverer, ozone layer in upper atmosphere 1858 Event - Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer 1838 Birthday - John Muir, U.S., naturalist/discoverer, glaciers in High Seirras 1838 Birthday - Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun 1836 Birthday - Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer, Helium, founder, Nature magazine 1826 Death - Giuseppe Piazzi, monk, mathematician and discoverer, found 1st asteroid, dies at 80 1824 Birthday - William Higgins, discoverer, nature of spiral nebulae 1824 Death - Edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies 1822 Birthday - Gregor Mendel, monk/geneticist, discoverer of laws of heredity 1799 Birthday - William Lassell, discoverer, satellites of Uranus and Neptune 1785 Event - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet 1750 Birthday - Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer 1747 Death - Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies 1746 Birthday - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk, mathematician, and discoverer, discovers 1st asteroid, Ceres 1685 Birthday - Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem 1625 Birthday - Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer, 4 moons of Saturn 1543 Death - Juan Cabrillo, conqueror of Cen America, discoverer of California, dies |
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