Today in Science (0624)

Births

1795 - Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist

1883 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1915 - Fred Hoyle, British astronomer

1927 - Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1637 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer

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