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Otto Diels
Born: January 23, 1876
Sciencea German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for diene synthesis.more…Alfred Döblin
Born: August 10, 1878
Lit.Westa German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatzmore…Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
Born: January 4, 1737
Sciencea French chemist, politician, and aeronaut. He is credited with producing the first systematic method of chemical nomenclature.more…Arthur Harden
Born: October 12, 1865
Sciencea British biochemist. He was a founding member of the Biochemical Society and editor of its journal for 25 years.more…Christian Doppler
Born: November 29, 1803
Sciencean Austrian mathematician and physicist. He is celebrated for his principle that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observermore…Thomas Beddoes
Born: April 13, 1760
Sciencea reforming practitioner and teacher of medicinemore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
