Today in Science (1001)

Births

1835 - Ãdám Politzer, Austrian physician

1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist

1910 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-born physician

1910 - José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist

1947 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1838 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist

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