Today in Science (1209)

Births

1571 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer

1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician

1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist

1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer

1917 - James Rainwater, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1919 - William Lipscomb, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1926 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist

1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy

1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1996 - Mary Leakey, British archeologist and anthropologist