February 9th
1752 - Death of Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist
1775 - Birth of Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
1880 - Brith of Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician
1910 - Birth of Jacques Monod, French biochemist and Nobel laureate
1925 - Birth of Burkhard Heim, German physicist
1963 - Birth of Brian Greene, American physicist
1979 - Death of Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate
1994 - Death of Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and Nobel laureate
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February 28th
1704 - Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer
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1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer
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1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist
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