Eighteen-ninety-six and all that.
This year's commemorative platter includes ether anaesthesia, smallpox vaccination, radioactivity and several mathematical morsels, as well as an accidental death (Otto Lilienthal) and the mother of all births (the Universe).
Office of History of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.
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D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*