Events
1782 - The Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifts on its first test flight.
1900 - Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
1962 - Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
Births
1909 - Edward Tatum, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate
1922 - Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1873 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist [See last year’s post on Agassiz]
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No Se Nada highlights (and RPM picks it up) a picture of a statue of Louis Agassiz head-first in the ground after the
I’m going to close things down here until the beginning of the New Year - a combination of projects I need to finish and family commitments mean that I will be posting little (if anything) for the next two weeks. I wish all my readers a happy, safe & peaceful holiday season.
When the earth shook and the San Francisco Bay Area trembled, a statue fell off the Zoology building at Stanford. That statue was of the paleontologist Louis Agassiz.