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).
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Heilbron, J., Bynum, W. Eighteen-ninety-six and all that. Nature 379, 15–18 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/379015a0
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