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Today in Science (0812)

By jlynch on August 11, 2007.

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Events

1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Deimos.

1883 - The last quagga (above) dies at the Artis Magistra zoo

1960 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched

1977 - The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

1981 - Release of the IBM PC

1990 - Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.

Births

1885 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist

1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1919 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist

Deaths

1810 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist

1865 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist

1914 - John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer

1955 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1973 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate

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History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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