Today in Science

Births

1598 - Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer

1794 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist

1798 - Ãtienne Bobillier, French mathematician

1863 - Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician

1866 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist

1946 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Deaths

1790 - Benjamin Franklin, American inventor

1942 - Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1976 - Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate

1994 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, Nobel laureate

More like this