Today in Science (0712)

Births

1849 - Sir William Osler, Canadian physician and author

1850 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist

1861 - George Washington Carver, American botanist

1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician

1863 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist

1913 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1928 - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1682 - Jean Picard, French astronomer

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