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Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Born: December 9, 1742
Sciencea Swedish German pharmaceutical chemist. Discovered oxygen (independently), molybdenum, manganese, barium, chlorine, tungsten and moremore…Werner Heisenberg
Born: December 5, 1901
Sciencea German theoretical physicist and one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics.more…Erwin Schrödinger
Born: August 12, 1887
Sciencea Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist with Irish citizenship who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theorymore…Émile Borel
Born: January 7, 1871
Sciencea French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability.more…Georges Duhamel
Born: June 30, 1884
Lit.Westa French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-seven timesmore…Robert Burns
Born: January 25, 1759
Lit.Westa Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
