Today in Science (0201)

Births

1635 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist

1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist

1844 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist

Deaths

1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist

1903 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist

1958 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1976 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1976 - George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

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