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Today in Science (1203)

By jlynch on December 2, 2007.

Events

1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine.

1967 - A transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).

1973 - Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.

1999 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.

Births

1776 - Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist

1838 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist

1842 - Ellen Swallow Richards, American scientist

1886 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1900 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1933 - Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1993 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist

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