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||1955 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) | ||1955 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) | ||
||George Braxton Pegram (d. August 12, 1958) was an American physicist who played a key role in the technical administration of the Manhattan Project. | |||
||1960 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched. | ||1960 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched. | ||
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1827: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake dies.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley arrives at Charleston, South Carolina by rail.
1887: Physicist and academic Erwin Schrödinger born. He will be awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.
1937: Astronomer and crime-fighter George Ellery Hale publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on magnetic fields in sunspots, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1989: Physicist and inventor William Shockley dies. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the point-contact transistor.
1996: Astronomer and crime-fighter Vera Rubin computes the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, makes contact with AESOP.
2005: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the twelfth anniversary of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launch.
2017: AESOP re-broadcasts 1996 conversation with astronomer and crime-fighter Vera Rubin about the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion.