June 14
- Birthday of Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner, (June 14, 1868 – June 26, 1943), was an Austrian biologist and physician.[2] He is noted for having first distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and having identified, with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor, in 1937, thus enabling physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient′s life.
Birthday of Che
- This man need no introduction. We all know him by direct or indirect information. He is Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Though we know him as a major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. He is also a Argentinian-Cuban physician, author.
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* Today is also the birthday of a scientist whom you would all mostly know.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (French: [kulɔ̃]; 14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806) was a French physicist. He was best known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion, but also did important work on friction. The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named after him.
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