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Today in Science (0310)
March 10, 2008
Events
1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
1982 – Syzygy: all nine planets align on the same side of the Sun.
2006 – Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
Births
1628 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician
1709 – Georg Steller, German naturalist
Deaths
1585 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist
1670 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist
1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1966 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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