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