Events
1977 - The Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are terminated.
2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken. PZ Myers is ecstatic.
Births
1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician
1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist
1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1939 - Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1951 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1985 - Charles Richter, American seismologist
1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
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2007: In a vain attempt to win the SciBlogs Commenting Contest, Scott Hatfield leaves this post.