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Today in Science

By jlynch on June 15, 2007.

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Events

1963 - Vostok 6 Mission, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

Births

1591 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist

1633 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist

1801 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist

1806 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor

1826 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist

1880 - Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist

1897 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate

1902 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (above)

1902 - George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist

1909 - Archie Fairley Carr, biologist

Deaths

1855 - John Gorrie, American physician

1858 - John Snow, English obstetrician

1961 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician

1977 - Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist

1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist

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History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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