Today in Science (0619)

Births

1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher

1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer

1897 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel laureate

1906 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate

1910 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate

1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1820 - Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist

1844 - Ãtienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist

1979 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist

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