Thursday, August 26, 2010

26 August 10

Today marks the birthday of:
  • Albert Sabin (8/26/1906 - 3/3/1993); Polish-born American microbiologist; developed oral polio vaccine (through collaboration with Jonas Salk)
  • Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (8/26/1743 - 5/8/1794); French scientist; discovered oxygen (but took credit for work by Joseph Priestley)

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