Today in Science (1009)

Events

1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.

Births

1704 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician

1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer

1879 - Max von Laue, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1933 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist

1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer

1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1987 - William Parry Murphy, American physician