Today in Science (0811)

Births

1673 - Richard Mead, English physician

1722 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician

1858 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize Laureate

1905 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist

1912 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer

1926 - Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1938 - Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist

Deaths

1851 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist

1854 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist

1972 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate

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