Events
1958 - The United States Army launches Explorer III.
Births
1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
1698 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist
1859 - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician
1875 - Max Abraham, German physicist
1905 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
1911 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1913 - Paul ErdÅs, Hungarian mathematician
1916 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
1951 - Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1535 - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist
1797 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist, considered a "Father of Modern Geology" and discoverer of Hutton's Unconformity (above)
1910 - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer
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