Events
1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
Births
1742 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist
1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon
1929 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1971 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
2001 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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