Today in Science (0207)

Births

1870 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist

1905 - Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist

1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist

1960 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist

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