Today in Science (0924)

Births

1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist

1802 - Adolphe d’Archaic, French paleontologist and geologist

1870 - Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor

1895 - André Frédéric Cournand, French physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1541 - Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist

1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist

1904 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician and Nobel Prize laureate

1945 - Hans Geiger, German physicist

1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist

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