Today in Science (1202)

Births

1885 - George Richards Minot, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate

1931 - Nigel Calder, British science writer

Deaths

1987 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich, Russian physicist

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