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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.

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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Posted on: January 5, 2008 2:17 AM, by John Lynch

Events

1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.

1972 - Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.

2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered.

Births

1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer

1874 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

1879 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician

1906 - Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist

Deaths

1904 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist

1922 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer

1970 - Max Born, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1981 - Harold C. Urey, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

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