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Today in Science

By jlynch on June 4, 2007.

Events

1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.

Births

1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician

1646 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician

1757 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist

1819 - John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer

1862 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1912 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist

Deaths

1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician

Tags
History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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