Apologies for no Monday Mustelid yesterday. Busy, busy.
Events
1675 - John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal
1774 - First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.
1997 - Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
2002 - Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
2006 - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
Births
1835 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist
1847 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist
1854 - Napier Shaw, British meteorologist
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist
1862 - Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist
1863 - Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist
1881 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist
1903 - William C. Boyd, American immunochemist
1904 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist
1923 - Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer
1934 - Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
Deaths
1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist
1910 - Knut Ãngström, Swedish physicist
1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist
1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1973 - Samuel Tolansky, British scientist
1976 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist
2004 - George Pake, American physicist
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