Today in Science (0625)

Births

1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist

1864 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate

1894 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist

1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate

1911 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate

1928 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer

1866 - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist

1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist

1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate

1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate

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