Today in Science (1004)

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Events

1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

Births

1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer

1723 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist

1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1918 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1938 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1947 - Max Planck, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

2000 - Michael Smith, Canadian biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate