Today in Science (0910)

Events

1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.

Births

1624 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician

1892 - Arthur Compton, American physicist and Nobel laureate

1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist

1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist

Deaths

1749 - Ãmilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist

1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist and Nobel laureate

1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist and Nobel laureate

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I’m going to close things down here until the beginning of the New Year - a combination of projects I need to finish and family commitments mean that I will be posting little (if anything) for the next two weeks. I wish all my readers a happy, safe & peaceful holiday season.