Today in Science (0816)

Births

1832 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist

1845 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, Nobel laureate

1904 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1705 - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist

1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist

1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist

1907 - James Hector, Scottish geologist

1957 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1973 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

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