Today in Science

February 7th

1736 - Death of Stephen Gray, English astronomer

1870 - Birth of Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist

1877 - Birth of Godfrey Harold Hardy, English mathematician

1889 - Birth of Harry Nyquist, important contributor to information theory

1897 - Death of Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist

1905 - Birth of Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and Nobel Prize Laureate

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I can't believe we still have to cover this. We know how old the Earth is. The science on this is pretty darn good. It is 4.54 billion years old plus or minus about 1%.