 1814 - Anders Jonas Ångström born: emission and absorption spectra of chemical elements; angstrom units = 10^-10 m. |
| 1844 - Julian Friedrich Miescher born: discovered nucleic acids. |
| 1872 - Richard M. Willstätter born: aliphatic amines and alkaloids; Nobel prize, 1915. |
| 1894 - John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) and William Ramsay made preliminary announcement of the discovery of argon (Ar, element 18) at BAAS meeting. |
| 1912 - Salvador Luria born: microbial genetics; Nobel prize (Medicine), 1969. |
| 1918 - Frederick Sanger born: structure of proteins including insulin; base-pair sequences of nucleic acids; Nobel prize, 1958 and 1980. |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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