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
