Today in Science

January 30th

1720 - Birth of Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist

1822 - Birth of Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist

1858 - Death of Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist

1899 - Birth of Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1925 - Birth of Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist

1928 - Death of Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1948 - Death of Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer

1951 - Death of Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer

1958 - Death of Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer

1949 - Birth of Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1991 - Death of John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1995 - Death of Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter

2001 - Death of Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery