Today in Science (1002)

Births

1832 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist

1852 - William Ramsay, Scottish chemist

1907 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1914 - Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist

1917 - Christian de Duve, English-born biologist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1987 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

2002 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher

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