Today in Science (0112)

Events

1808 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society is held.

2005 - Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket.

Births

1792 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist

1797 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician

1899 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1905 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist

Deaths

1732 - John Horsley, British archaeologist

1997 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher and Nobel Prize laureate

2003 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist

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