Today in Science (0709)

6.02 x 10²³

Births

1800 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician

1858 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist

1911 - John A. Wheeler, American physicist

1926 - Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist; the number of elementary entities in one mole of a substance, 6.02 x 10²³, is known as Avogadro’s number.

1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist

1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist