Today in Science (0620)

Births

1861 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

1889 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer

1941 - Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut

Deaths

1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist

1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel laureate

2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist

2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate

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