After nearly two weeks away from regular Intertube access, I’m back. Below the fold is your day in science:
Births
1719 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist
1805 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician
1906 - Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist
1912 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer
Deaths
2003 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate
2005 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist
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Events
2003 - Last successful contact with Pioneer 10.
Births
1561 - Francis Bacon, English philosopher
1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
1796 - Karl Claus, Russian chemist
1903 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist
1908 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian…
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1561 - Birth of Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher
1592 - Birth of Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
1767 - Death of Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist
1779 - Death of Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer
1840 -…
Events
1969 - The first Internet connection was created when network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another
Births
1436 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician
1519 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist
1580 - Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish…
Events
1994 - Confirmation of the first extrasolar planets (around pulsar PSR B1257+12) is announced by Alexander Wolszczan.
Births
1652 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician
1774 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist
1882 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1889 - Paul…