Today in Science (0716)

Events

1862 - Comet Swift-Tuttle is discovered by Lewis Swift.

1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates (see above) a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

1994 - Jupiter is hit by fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

Births

1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate

1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate

1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate