Today in Science (0922)

Births

1715 - Jean-Ãtienne Guettard, French physician and scientist

1717 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer

1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist

1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist

1900 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer

1901 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1777 - John Bartram, American botanist

1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

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