Today in Science (0807)

Events

1991 - World Wide Web debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

Births

1844 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist

1932 - Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr., African American ophthalmologist

Deaths

1639 - Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist

1848 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist

1912 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist

2004 - Colin Bibby, English ornithologist

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