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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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