Notable Births in Science
Walter Lincoln Hawkins (1911)
African-American scientist and inventor Walter Lincoln Hawkins was born in 1911. He is renowned for his significant contribution to telecommunications, particularly for developing a plastic coating that enabled universal service for telephone wires.
Walter Gilbert (1932)
American biochemist and physicist Walter Gilbert was born in 1932. He played a pivotal role in the early efforts to sequence the human genome and was the first scientist to successfully purify a gene regulatory protein.