Today in Science (0815)

Births

1892 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1893 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer

1896 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

Deaths

1953 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist

1982 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate

2004 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

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