Today in Science (0724)

Births

1794 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist

Deaths

1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1986 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate

2005 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist

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