Events
1921 - Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
Births
1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist
1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist
1874 - Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist
1885 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist
1897 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer
Deaths
2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist
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