MAY 2005    -   Today in Science History
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Johann Jakob Balmer
Balmer b.1825
2
Leonardo da Vinci
da Vinci d.1519
3
George Paget Thomson
Thomson b.1892
4
Thomas Huxley
Huxley b.1825

Peter Cooper Hewitt
Hewitt b.1861

Victor Grignard
Grignard b.1871
7 
Edwin Herbert Land
Land b.1909
8
André Michel Lwoff
Lwoff b.1902
9
Howard Carter
Carter b.1873
10
Cecilia Payne
   Payne
b.1900
11
Richard P. Feynman
Feynman b.1918
12
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Hodgkin b.1910
13
Sir Ronald Ross
Ross b.1857
14
Mikhail Semyonovich Tswett
Tswett b.1872
15
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
Fleming b.1857
16
J. Georg Bednorz
Bednorz b.1950
17
Edward Jenner
Jenner b.1749
18
Oliver Heaviside
Heaviside b.1850
19
Jan Matzeliger shoe-lasting machine patent issued
Shoes 1885
20
William Hewlett
  Hewlett
b.1913
21
Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis
Coriolis b.1792
22
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Doyle b.1859
23
Carolus Linnaeus
Linnaeusi b.1707
24
Harry Hess
Hess b.1906
25
Lunar landing announcement by Kennedy
Moon 1961
26
Sally Ride
Ride b.1951
27
John Cockcroft
Cockcroft b.1897
28
Louis Agassiz
Agassiz b.1807
29
Chien-Shiung Wu
Wu b.1912
30
Hovercraft first sea trial
Hovercraft 1959
31
Louis Ignarro
Ignarro b.1941





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