Today in Science (0706)

Events

1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister.

Births

1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist

1785 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist

1903 - Hugo Theorell, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1476 - Regiomontanus, German astronomer

1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist

1976 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist

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Minor correction : 1476 should be "Regiomontanus"

By Peter Hornby (not verified) on 06 Jul 2007 #permalink

Fixed. Thanks.

By John Lynch (not verified) on 06 Jul 2007 #permalink