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Today in Science (0621)

By jlynch on June 20, 2007.

Births

1646 (O.S.) - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and scientist

1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist

1791 - Robert Napier, British engineer

1805 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath

1811 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist

1823 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer

1828 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist

1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer

1868 - Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist

1870 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist

1876 - Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist

1887 - Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist

1898 - Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer

Deaths

1874 - Anders Jonas Ãngström, Swedish physicist

1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer

1952 - Wilfrid ’Wop’ May, Canadian aviation pioneer

1957 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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