Today in Science (0804)

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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