Today in Science (0126)

Births

1891 - Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon

1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist

1911 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician

1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist

1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer

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