Today in Science (0901)

Events

1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding.

1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

1979 - The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes at a distance of 21,000 km.

Births

1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist

1856 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist

1877 - Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate in Chemistry

1888 - Andrija Å tampar, Croatian physician

Deaths

1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician

1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist and Nobel laureate