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Today in Science (0705)

By jlynch on July 5, 2007.

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Events

1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

1951 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.

1996 - Birth of Dolly, first cloned mammal. Dolly died in 2003 and now resides at the Royal Museum of Scotland (above)

1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.

Births

1888 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate

1891 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1904 - Ernst Mayr, American ornithologist and evolutionary biologist

Deaths

1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist

1862 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist

1927 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

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History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1951 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
1996 - Birth of Dolly, first cloned mammal. Dolly died in 2003 and now resides at the Royal Museum of Scotland (above)

A pretty distinguished day, I'd say.

Mind you, I'm bemused by the use of the verb "resides" ... :-)

By Scott Belyea (not verified) on 05 Jul 2007 #permalink