I'll make one post everyday about what happened on the particular date in the scientific world. These are copied and pasted from the stranger fruit blog at scienceblogs.

Today in science:

Births

1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic

1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate

1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist

Deaths

1838 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist

1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer