Today in Science (0208)

Births

1677 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer

1807 - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist

1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist

1930 - James Deetz, American anthropologist

Deaths

1856 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist

1957 - Walther Bothe, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1957 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist

1975 - Robert Robinson, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

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