I get back from Exeter later on today, but as it turns out will be departing up north for a short break from the heat of Phoenix. Blogging will recommence later this week.
Below is your Today in Science.
Events
2005 -Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris, a possible tenth planet.
Births
1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
Deaths
1781 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician
1994 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
More like this
Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was another amazing woman that changed the world with science!
To read the full biography of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin click here
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot
In a follow-up to her review of Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women scientists speak out by Emily Monosson