 1561 - Francis Bacon born: inductive scientific method; Novum Organum. Bacon applied his inductive method to the nature of heat. |
| 1617 - King James I charters the first English organization of pharmacists ("Master, Wardens and Society of the Art and Mystery of the Apothecaries of the City of London"). |
| 1775 - André-Marie Ampère born: best known for Ampère's law relating magnetic field and electrical current, Ampère also made a hypothesis about gases much like Avogadro's. |
| 1936 - Alan J. Heeger born: conducting polymers; Nobel Prize, 2000. |
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