Posted by Births
1602 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist
1762 – Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist
1886 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1889 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer
1910 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist
1926 – Andrzej W. Schally, Polish-born endocrinologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1704 – Charles Plumier, French botanist
1778 – Francesco Cetti, Italian scientist
1934 – Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist
1945 – Francis William Aston, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1976 – Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist
November 20, 2007