Today in Science (0120)

Events

1969 - The first pulsar is discovered.

Births

1775 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist

1910 - Joy Adamson, Austrian naturalist and writer

1931 - David Lee, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1973 - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician

2005 - Miriam Louisa Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author

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