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Today in Science

March 22, 2007

Events

1960Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Townes receive the first patent for a laser.

1997 – The comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.

Births

1868Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1931Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1772John Canton, English physicist

1840Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician

1924William Macewen, Scottish surgeon

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