Today in Science

March 19th

Events

1915 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet

Births

1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar

1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology

1883 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1900 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1943 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1871 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist

1914 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist

1950 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born today in 1883)

1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician

1987 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate