After nearly two weeks away from regular Intertube access, I’m back. Below the fold is your day in science:
Births
1719 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist
1805 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician
1906 - Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist
1912 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer
Deaths
2003 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate
2005 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist
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