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Today in Science (1201)

December 1, 2007

Births

1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer

1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer

1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist

1925 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer

1750 – Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer

1964 – J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist