Today in Science

Events

1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Jean-Baptiste Denys.

1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity.

2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon. EVERYBODY PANIC!

Births

1755 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist

1915 - Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1917 - John Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1917 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist

1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist

1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate