Today in Science (0210)

Births

1785- Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist

1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist

1897 - John Franklin Enders, American virologist and Nobel Prize laureate

1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist

1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer

1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist

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