Events
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1981 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, at the time the outermost planet in the Solar System.
Births
1561 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer
1841 - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher; Nobel Prize laureate
1900 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate
1903 - Ãrpád ÃlÅ, Hungarian physicist
1916 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1822 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer
1867 - Michael Faraday, English scientist
1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate
1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American zoologist and sexologist
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I have no scientific background other than an interest in what science has accomplished and I applaud all credible scientists and researchers. (scienceblogs is full of the people I want helping to secure our future.)
I did a little reading on "1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American zoologist and sexologist".
He's been vindicated and turned into a monster. How is his work looked at today after all the controversy? Was there any truth of what Judith Reisman claimed? (Didn't seem like it to me)
I found lots on the Kinsey Institute re-evaluating his claims and coming up with relatively the same data.
What is the truth? What is smear? Is there "the straight dope" on this man and his research?
TIA
I thought for sure I would get something?
I don't know anything about Kinsey. Sorry.