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Today in Science (1031)

By jlynch on October 31, 2007.

I’m off for the History of Science Society annual meeting in DC for the next few days, so posting will be scant or non-existent. I’m responding to a series of papers on Victorian critics of scientific naturalism and attending the Committee on Education annual meeting.

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Births

1835 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1925 - John Pople, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1943 - Paul Frampton, English physicist

Deaths

1939 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist

1986 - Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

2005 - Hal Anger, American biophysicist

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