Today in Science (0914)

Events

1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.

Births

1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer

1804 - John Gould, British ornithologist who worked on Darwin’s specimens from the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle

1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

1909 - Peter Scott, British naturalist

1936 - Ferid Murad, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer

1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist