Today in Science (0813)

Births

1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist

1814 - Anders Jonas Ãngström, Swedish physicist

1819 - George Gabriel Stokes, French physicist

1872 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1912 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1918 - Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

Deaths

1826 - René Laënnec, French physician

1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician

1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse

1917 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate