Events
1847 - James Young Simpson is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1980 - Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes first images of its rings.
Births
1795 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist
1842 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1896 - Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist
Deaths
1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist
1916 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer
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Yesterday, I posted a silly poll about optical physicists. Who are those people, and why should you care about them?
In inverse order of popularity:
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