I’m finally back in circulation, albeit only for a few days. Next Tuesday I leave for the ISHPSSB conference in Exeter (UK) and wont be bringing a laptop with me. The past ten days, I was spending time with family in Michigan - hence the relative silence
Below the fold is Today in Science.
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1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
Deaths
1838 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist
1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer
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