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Today in Science

By jlynch on April 18, 2007.

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Events

1971 - Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.

Births

1874 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist

1883 - Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician

1912 - Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1567 - Michael Stifel, German mathematician

1739 - Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician

1831 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician

1854 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist

1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (above)

1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1914 - Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician

1926 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician

2004 - John Maynard Smith, English evolutionary biologist

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History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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