Events
1753 - Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus,
1930 - The "planet" Pluto is officially named.
1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
Births
1852 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate
1881 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher
1918 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist
Deaths
1772 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician
1899 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician
The naming of Pluto is a fascinating story, but so its discovery, which also took place in 1930.
Pete
I wonder what part of the phrase "Today in Science" I failed to understand.
Sigh.