March 3rd
1703 - Death of Robert Hooke, English scientist
1800 - Birth of Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist
1845 - Birth of Georg Cantor, German mathematician
1918 - Birth of Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1988 - Death of Sewall Wright, American evolutionary biologist
1999 - Death of Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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Lots of cool papers today in 4 out of 7 PLoS journals!
So, it's Darwin Day tomorrow my time. So what? What's so great about Darwin?