Today in Science (0119)

Events

2006 - The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.

Births

1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer

Deaths

1878 - Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist

1954 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist

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