Today in Science (0826)

Births

1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist

1736 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle, French chemist

1740 - Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor

1850 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate

1882 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate

1906 - Albert Sabin, American polio researcher

Deaths

1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist

1865 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer

1910 - William James, American psychologist and philosopher

1987 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1990 - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer

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