 1716 - James Lind born: physician who found the cause and cure of scurvy to be dietary (in modern terms, ascorbic acid deficiency). |
| 1909 - Eugene G. Rochow born: silicone chemistry. |
| 1918 - Kenichi Fukui born: frontier molecular orbitals; Nobel Prize, 1981. |
| 1957 - Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, launched by Soviet Union. |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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