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Today in Science (0622)

By jlynch on June 21, 2007.

Events

1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his heliocentrism.

1978 - Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered.

Births

1871 - William McDougall, British psychologist and polymath

1887 - Julian Huxley, British biologist

Deaths

1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician

1990 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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