 1843 - Stephen Moulton Babcock born: agricultural chemist, developed Babcock Test for determining the butterfat in milk. |
| 1881 - Clinton Joseph Davisson born: wave nature of electrons (Davisson-Germer electron diffraction experiment); Nobel Prize (physics), 1937. |
| 1902 - Frank H. Spedding born: reduction of rare earth elements to metallic state; uranium processing for fission. |
| 1903 - George W. Beadle born: chemical genetics; Nobel Prize (Medicine), 1958. |
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