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Wilhelm Kühne
Born: March 28, 1837
Sciencea German physiologist who coined the word enzymemore…Henri Becquerel
Born: December 15, 1852
Sciencea French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity.more…Andrea Pozzo
Born: November 30, 1642
Art.Westan Italian Jesuit brother, Baroque painter, architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoreticianmore…John Goodricke
Born: September 17, 1764
Sciencean English amateur astronomer. He is best known for his observations of the variable star Algol (Beta Persei) in 1782.more…Ugo Foscolo
Born: February 6, 1778
Lit.Westan Italian writer, revolutionary and a poet.more…Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Born: March 19, 1900
Sciencea French physicist and husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, with whom he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of Induced radioactivity.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
