Today in Science (0205)

Births

1795 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist

1910 - Charles Leblond, Canadian cell biologist

1914 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

1915 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist

1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist

1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist

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