Today in Science (0309)

Apparently it is PZ's birthday. Wander on over and remind him how old he is ...

Events

2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.

Births

1564 - David Fabricius, German astronomer

1758 - Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist & phrenologist

1887 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist

1923 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1851 - Hans Christian Ãrsted, Danish physicist

1954 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer

1954 - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer

1974 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

1983 - Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

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