Today in Science (0107)

Events

1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons (the Galilean moons) of Jupiter for the first time.

Births

1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor

1925 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist

1941 - John E. Walker, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1786 - Jean-Ãtienne Guettard, French physician and scientist

1878 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist

1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist

1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

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