Today in Science (0916)

Births

1725 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist

1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist

1853 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician and Nobel Prize laureate

1893 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1736 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist

1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist

1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician and Nobel Prize laureate

1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist

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