Today in Science

Events

1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

Births

1676 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician

1738 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician

1807 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist

1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist

1872 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist

1942 - Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Deaths

1937 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist

1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician

2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher

2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry