Today in Science (0203)

Births

1754 - George Crabbe, English naturalist

1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist

1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician

1912 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist

1920 - Henry Heimlich, American physician

Deaths

1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist

1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist

2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born evolutionary biologist

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