Tomorrow in Physics

December 4

1998: the second module of the International Space Station, Unity, is launched
More: http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4402159/International-Space-Station-Unity-Module-is-launched--December-4--1998

1852: Orest Khvolson
- "He is most noted for being one of the first to study the gravitational lens effect"
- More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orest_Khvolson

1798: Luigi Galvani
- "demonstrated what we now understand to be the electrical basis of nerve impulses"
- More: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Galvani.htm
1850: William Sturgeon
- Acccomplishments include inventing the electromagnet and the electric motor.
- More: http://www.batteryfacts.co.uk/BatteryHistory/Sturgeon.html
1893: John Tyndall
- "experimental physicist who, during his long residence in England, was an avid promoter of science in the Victorian era"
- More: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/611577/John-Tyndall
1948: Frank Benford
- Best known for Benford's Law.
- More: http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/special/Benford.html