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Events
1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer III.
Births
1516 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
1698 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist
1859 – Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician
1875 – Max Abraham, German physicist
1905 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
1911 – Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1913 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician
1916 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 – Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
1951 – Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1535 – Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist
1797 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist, considered a “Father of Modern Geology” and discoverer of Hutton’s Unconformity (above)
1910 – Auguste Charlois, French astronomer