Today in Science

January 23rd

1556 - The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits resulting in a death toll perhaps as high as 830,000.

1719 - Birth of John Landen, English mathematician

1785 - Death of Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician

1840 - Birth of Ernst Abbe, German physicist

1857 - Birth of Andrija MohoroviÄiÄ, Croatian seismologist

1862 - Birth of David Hilbert, German mathematician

1872 - Birth of Paul Langevin, French physicist

1876 - Birth of Otto Diels, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1907 - Birth of Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1918 - Birth of Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

1929 - Birth of John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, and Nobel Prize laureate

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I can.

By John Lynch (not verified) on 23 Jan 2007 #permalink

1556 - The deadliest earthquake in history

Hey why blame science for this one? The Doomsday machine hadn't been invented yet.

Who is blaming science?

By John Lynch (not verified) on 23 Jan 2007 #permalink