Today in Science (0710)

Events

1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.

1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.

1962 - Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

Births

1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist

1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer

1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1920 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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