Today in Science (0303)

Events

1879 - The United States Geological Survey is created.

Births

1918 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1703 - Robert Hooke, English scientist

1765 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist

1988 - Sewall Wright, American evolutionary biologist

1999 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

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