Today in Science (0830)

Events

1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

Births

1852 - Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, Nobel laureate

1871 - Ernest Rutherford, Nobel laureate

1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Nobel laureate

1912 - Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor

1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel laureate

1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel laureate

1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist

2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer

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