2013 Event In Sri Lanka, a researcher discovered Poecilotheria rajaei, a new species of tarantula slightly smaller than a dinner plate, with a leg span of eight inches 2004 Death "Francis Crick, Ph. D", DNA researcher, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies at 88 2001 Death William Masters, sex researcher, dies at 85 1997 Death Ann Craft, researcher and writer, dies at 53 1997 Death Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95 1996 Death Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher, dies at 77 1996 Death Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68 1995 Death John Gillett, film researcher, dies at 70 1995 Death Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist, dies at 80 1994 Death Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88 1947 Birthday Charles A Ingene, macromarketing researcher 1943 Birthday Ann Craft, researcher/writer 1941 Birthday Michael Apted, director/researcher, Granada TV 1934 Birthday George Stamatoyannopoulos, born in Greece, medical genetics researcher 1928 Birthday Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant 1925 Birthday John Gillett, film researcher 1923 Birthday Arthur C Nielsen, market researcher, TV's Nielsen's Ratings 1920 Birthday William Butterfield, born in England, born William John Hughes Butterfield, Lord Butterfield, life peer as Baron Butterfield of Stechford, Order of the British Empire, medical researcher, clinician, administrator 1919 Birthday Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher 1918 Birthday Gertrude Belle Elion, New York City, biochemist/drug researcher, Nobel 1988 1915 Birthday Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist 1906 Birthday Mark Alexander Abrams, market researcher 1901 Birthday Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher 1881 Birthday Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher, Nobel '53 1842 Birthday Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher and popularizer of astronomy 1544 Birthday William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist, researcher into magnetism
