Today in Science (0715)

Births

1918 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1921 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1922 - Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1928 - Carl Woese, American microbiologist

1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist

Deaths

1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

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