Posted by
Births
1663 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker
1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician
1913 – Bernard Lovell, British radio astronomer
1949 – H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician
1772 – William Borlase, English naturalist
1869 – Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim
1920 – Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist
1985 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate
2002 – George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate
2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist