Today in Science (0714)

Events

1965 - Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos (above) of another planet.

Births

1671 - Jacques D’Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician

1801 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist

1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1924 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Deaths

1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist