February Birthdays - CEO Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. introduced its latest creation, the iPad, a mobile tablet browsing device that is a cross between the iPhone and a MacBook laptop.
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February Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same February birthday as you. The second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
February 21
- 1909 - American physician & gynaecologist, Helen O Dickens Henderson
February 22
- 1796 - Adolphe Quetelet was a noted mathematician, astronomer, and statistician
- 1822 - German physician, Adolf Kuszmaul invented the stomach pump and discovered Kuszmaul disease
- 1852 - Internist, Pieter K Pel discovered Pel-Ebstein fever
- 1857 - Robert Baden-Powell was the founder of Boy Scouts and the Girl Guides
- 1857 - Physicist, Heinrich Hertz was the first to broadcast and receive radio waves and helped to invent radar technology.
- 1937 - Samuel Whitbread was a noted English brewer
- 1962 - Australian scientist, Steve Irwin
February 23
- 1898 - German archaeologist, Reinhard Herbig
- 1947 - British computer engineer, Colin Sanders invented Solid State Logic
- 1953 - Astrophysicist, Sallie L. Baliunas
February 24
February 25
- 1904 - Nutritionist, Adelle Davis was the author of Lets Stay Healthy
February 26
- 1852 - John Harvey Kellogg started the flaked cereal industry and founded Kellogg Cereal
- 1866 - Herbert Henry Dow was a pioneer in the chemical industry and founded Dow Chemical
February 27
- 1891 - David Sarnoff founded RCA
- 1897 - French astronomer, Bernard F. Lyot invented the Lyot filter
- 1899 - Charles Best co-discoverered Insulin
- 1933 - Geoffrey Maitland Smith founded Sears
February 28
- 1933 - Geoffrey Maitland Smith founded Sears
- 1663 - English inventor, Thomas Newcomen invented an improved steam engine
- 1896 - American physician, Philip Showalter Hench discovered cortisone and won the Nobel Prize
- 1901 - Chemist, Linus Pauling won the Nobel Prize in 1954 and 1962
- 1915 - English zoologist and immunologist, Peter Medawar won the Nobel Prize in 1953
- 1930 - American physicist, Leon Cooper won the Nobel Prize in 1972
- 1948 - American scientist, Steven Chu co-won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997
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