Today in Science (1106)

Events

1935 - Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation."

Deaths

1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer

1822 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist

1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

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