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September 16

EgyptianScience
  1. 1914 CEEgyptian · born

    The German Egyptologist Wolfgang Helck, a prolific historian of ancient Egypt's administration and New Kingdom, was born.

  2. 1893 CEScience · born

    The Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, who first isolated vitamin C and illuminated key steps of cellular respiration, was born in Budapest.

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