Today in Science (0820)

Events

1975 - Viking 1 planetary probe launched toward Mars.

1977 - Voyager 2 probe launched.

Births

1719 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer

1779 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist

1913 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1915 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1917 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1961 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1997 - Norris Bradbury, American physicist

2001 - Fred Hoyle, English astronomer

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