Today in Science (0212)

Events

2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

Births

1637 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist

1665 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician

1785 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist

1804 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist

1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist

1918 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1612 - Christopher Clavius, German astronomer

1799 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist

1958 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist

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