Today in Science (1022)

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Events

4004 BC - The universe is created this evening, according to James Ussher.

Births

1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician

1729 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist

1770 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist

1881 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1896 - Charles Glen King, American biochemist

1903 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer

1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist

1986 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate