First of all, I want to wish a happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers. To everyone else, have a happy Thursday. I’ll be laying low for the next four days (a combination of Thanksgiving and grading) and am not likely to post other than a brief comment to tonight’s ASU vs USC football game. Your Today in Science follows ...
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1635 - Francis Willughby, English biologist
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1917 - Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1939 - Tom West, American astrophysicist
Deaths
1944 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist
1981 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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