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Today in Science (1030)

By jlynch on October 30, 2007.

Births

1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist

1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist

1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist

1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist

1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate (declined)

1895 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate

1900 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate

1907 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist

1928 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, and Nobel Prize laureate

1941 - Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1626 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician

1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

2006 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist

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