Today in Science (0905)

Events

1977 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched

1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.

Births

1787 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist

1792 - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist

1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and inventor

Deaths

1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist

1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist

1943 - AleÅ¡ HrdliÄka, Czech anthropologist

1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist

2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer

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