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Today in Science

By jlynch on May 22, 2007.

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Today is the International Day for World Biodiversity, a favorite holiday of the Bush White House.

Events

1906 - Wright brothers are granted patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".

1969 - Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.

Births

1911 - Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born mathematical psychologist, and pianist

1912 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1920 - Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist

1927 - George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1666 - Gaspar Schott, German scientist

1868 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist

1983 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1997 - Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1998 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist

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History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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