Today in Science (0719)

I’m finally back in circulation, albeit only for a few days. Next Tuesday I leave for the ISHPSSB conference in Exeter (UK) and wont be bringing a laptop with me. The past ten days, I was spending time with family in Michigan - hence the relative silence

Below the fold is Today in Science.

Births

1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic

1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate

1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist

Deaths

1838 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist

1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer

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