1920 in Science - Births

Births

• February 7 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer engineer (died 1990).
• March 11 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• March 15 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate.
• April 6 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• June 17 - François Jacob, French biologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• July 10 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006).
• July 25 - Rosalind Franklin, English crystallographer (died 1958).
• September 29 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992).
• October 29 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate. (died 2011)
• December 6 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002).