Events
1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
Births
1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist
1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate
1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
1841 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist
1941 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist and Nobel laureate
1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist and Nobel laureate
2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about
The state of China has 1/5 of humanity within its borders, so it's genetic structure is of interest.
I was doing some digging around on the genetics of Central Asia and stumbled upon the data that 7% of the mtDNA lineages of the Hui, Muslims who speak Chinese, are West Eurasian.