Two weeks to go before the semester begins here at ASU and I still have syllabi to put together for my two classes (more on them closer to the start) along with three book reviews to finish. It has been a lazy Summer for a change, but that means there is much to do during the last few weeks before classes start.
Below the fold is your Today in Science
Events
1961 - Second successful manned orbital flight (USSR, Gherman Titov)
1964 - Prometheus, the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
Births
1881 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate
1900 - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist
Deaths
1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist
1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate