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jlynch | March 17, 2008Births
1640 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer
1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist
1907 - John Zachary Young, British biologist
Deaths
1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist
jlynch | March 16, 2008Events
1950 - Researchers announce the creation of Californium.
Births
1870 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist
1881 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - David Peakall, British scientist
Deaths
1764 - George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer
1846 - Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer
1853 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physician and mathematician
1956 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1983 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | March 15, 2008Events
1867 - Publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery.
Births
1750 - Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer
1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist
1794 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist
1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist
1851 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist
1918 - Frederick Reines, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist
Deaths
1935 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1998 - Derek Harold Richard Barton,…
jlynch | March 14, 2008Events
2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.
Births
1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer
1813 - John Snow, English epidemiologist
1821 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist
1854 - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist
1930 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist
1951 -…
jlynch | March 13, 2008Events
1942 - John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
Births
1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer
1854 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1862 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist
1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1995 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | March 13, 2008Events
1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto was telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
Births
1720 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer
1733 - Joseph Priestley, English scientist
1855 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer
1899 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1773 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist
jlynch | March 12, 2008Births
1824 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist
1835 - Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician
1838 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist
1863 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist
1880 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist
1881 - Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist
1907 - Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer
1925 - Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1991 - Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | March 11, 2008Births
1910 - Robert Havemann, German chemist
1920 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer
1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist
jlynch | March 9, 2008Events
1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
1982 - Syzygy: all nine planets align on the same side of the Sun.
2006 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
Births
1628 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician
1709 - Georg Steller, German naturalist
Deaths
1585 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist
1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist
1942 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1966 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | March 9, 2008Apparently it is PZ's birthday. Wander on over and remind him how old he is ...
Events
2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
Births
1564 - David Fabricius, German astronomer
1758 - Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist & phrenologist
1887 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist
1923 - Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1851 - Hans Christian Ãrsted, Danish physicist
1954 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer
1954 - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer
1974 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist…
jlynch | March 8, 2008Sincerest apologies for being MIA for quite a while now. This week in particular was hectic (in good ways) and time to blog was negligible. Two candidates interviewed and the systematics workshop was excellent. But it is now Saturday, Spring Break has started, and I theoretically have some down free time. Wilkins is going to be staying with me for a few days, so we hope to hit the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum and the "Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight" exhibit at the Arizona Museum of Natural History before heading north to Utah for the Edges and Boundaries of Biological Objects…
jlynch | March 3, 2008Apologies for no Monday Mustelid yesterday. Busy, busy.
Events
1675 - John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal
1774 - First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.
1997 - Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
2002 - Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
2006 - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
Births
1835 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist
1847 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist
1854 - Napier…
jlynch | March 2, 2008
Events
1879 - The United States Geological Survey is created.
Births
1918 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1703 - Robert Hooke, English scientist
1765 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist
1988 - Sewall Wright, American evolutionary biologist
1999 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | March 1, 2008No real time to post anything substantial - still grading and we have job candidates in this coming week. Still, here’s something to keep you amused.
Events
1808 - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society was held in Edinburgh.
1972 - The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched
1998 - Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
Births
1779 - Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist
1862 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist
Deaths
1729 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and…
jlynch | March 1, 2008Events
1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1966 - Venera 3 crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet.
1980 - Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists.
Births
1910 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1943 - Richard H. Price, American physicist
1943 - Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
Deaths
1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician
1911 - Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, Dutch chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist
1995 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist and…
jlynch | February 17, 2008It’s that time of the year - first set of papers to be graded. That, coupled with our job search and some other things means I’m not going to be able to post anything over the next seven to ten days.
So there’ll be no "Monday Mustelid" or "Today in Science" for a while. Just warning ya!
jlynch | February 16, 2008Births
1723 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
1781 - René Laënnec, French physician
1792 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist
1796 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician
1888 - Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1600 - Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher
1680 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist
jlynch | February 16, 2008Births
1727 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist
1804 - Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist
1822 - Francis Galton, English biologist and biometrician
1834 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher
Deaths
1531 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer
1754 - Richard Mead, English physician
1980 - Erich Hückel, German physicist
1997 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist
jlynch | February 14, 2008Events
1946 - ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
Births
1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist
1809 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist
1861 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1873 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1988 - Richard Feynman, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1999 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
jlynch | February 13, 2008Events
1961 - Lawrencium is first synthesized at the University of California.
2000 - NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
Births
1848 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer
1869 - Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1898 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer
Deaths
1975 - Julian Huxley, British biologist
1989 - James Bond, American ornithologist
2003 - Dolly, first cloned mammal