Today in Science (0202)

By jlynch on February 2, 2008.

Births

1695 - William Borlase, English naturalist

1802 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist

1829 - Alfred Brehm, German zoologist

1841 - FranÃ§ois-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist

Deaths

1712 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician

1907 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist

1957 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist

1970 - Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher

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