Today in Science (0903)

Events

1976 -Viking 2 lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

Births

1710 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist

1869 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and Nobel laureate

1899 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist and Nobel laureate

1905 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist and Nobel laureate

1907 - Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist

1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate

Deaths

2005 - Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist

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