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This week in science history

February 2, 2005


Gideon Algernon Mantell, British physician, geologist and paleontologist who discovered four of the five genera of dinosaurs known during his time, in 1790.


Elizabeth Blackwell, considered the first female doctor of medicine in modern times and the first woman to earn an M.D. degree from an American medical school, in 1910 at age 89.


In 1971, Apollo 14, the third U.S. manned moon expedition, landed near Fra Mauro, and astronauts Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell walked on the lunar surface for four hours.

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