Today in Science (0130)

Events

1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.

Births

1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist

1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist

1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist and Nobel Prize laureate

1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist

1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician

1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist

1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter

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