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05 Nov 1500
![]() Nicolaus Copernicus |
Nicolaus Copernicus (astronomy) Nicolaus Copernicus observes a lunar eclipse from Rome. |
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05 Nov 1516
![]() Martin Helwig |
birth Martin Helwig Martin Helwig, Silesian cartographer (died 1574) |
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05 Nov 1702
![]() Edward Stone |
birth Edward Stone Edward Stone, English polymath (died 1768) |
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05 Nov 1714
![]() Bernardino Ramazzini |
death Bernardino Ramazzini Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born 1633) |
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05 Nov 1787
![]() John Richardson |
birth John Richardson John Richardson (died 1865), Scottish naturalist, explorer and surgeon. |
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05 Nov 1800
![]() Jesse Ramsden |
death Jesse Ramsden Jesse Ramsden, English scientific instrument maker (born 1735) |
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05 Nov 1802
![]() Marc Isambard Brunel |
Marc Isambard Brunel (technology) Marc Isambard Brunel begins installation of his blockmaking machinery at Portsmouth Block Mills in England. |
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05 Nov 1824
![]() Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (institutions) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first technological university in the English-speaking world, is founded in Troy, New York. |
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05 Nov 1855
![]() Léon Teisserenc de Bort |
birth Léon Teisserenc de Bort Léon Teisserenc de Bort (died 1913), meteorologist. |
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05 Nov 1879
![]() James Clerk Maxwell |
death James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (born 1831), mathematician and physicist. |
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05 Nov 1892
![]() J. B. S. Haldane |
birth J. B. S. Haldane J. B. S. Haldane (died 1964), British geneticist. |
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05 Nov 1906
![]() Fred Lawrence Whipple |
birth Fred Lawrence Whipple Fred Lawrence Whipple (died 2004), American astronomer who coined the term "dirty snowball" to explain the nature of comets. |
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05 Nov 1914
![]() August Weismann |
death August Weismann August Weismann (born 1834), German evolutionary biologist. |
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05 Nov 1927
![]() Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing (technology) Completion of a bridge by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, the world's first railroad bridge of wholly welded construction. |
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05 Nov 1930
![]() Christiaan Eijkman |
death Christiaan Eijkman Christiaan Eijkman (born 1858), Dutch physiologist. |
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05 Nov 1942
![]() Alexis Carrel |
death Alexis Carrel Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, biologist and winner of a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1873) |
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05 Nov 1976
![]() Willi Hennig |
death Willi Hennig Willi Hennig (b. 1913), German entomologist and pioneer of cladistics. |
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05 Nov 1992
![]() Jan Oort |
death Jan Oort Jan Oort (b. 1900), Dutch astronomer. |