Today in Science (0913)

Events

1994 - Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.

Births

1851 - Walter Reed, American physician and biologist

1886 - Robert Robinson, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1948 - Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist

Deaths

1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill