Today in Science (0204)

Events

1936 - Radium E becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.

Births

1725 - Dru Drury, English entomologist

1778 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist

1846 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist

1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist

1896 - Friedrich Hund, German physicist

1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer

Deaths

1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian physicist

1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist

1987 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist

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