Today in Science (0822)

Events

1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered.

Births

1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor

1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer

1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist

Deaths

1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist

1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist

1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy

1950 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist

1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist

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