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||2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) | ||2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) | ||
||Herbert Frank York (d. 19 May 2009) was a American nuclear physicist. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes. Pic. | |||
||Dale Dehaven Myers (d. May 19, 2015) | ||Dale Dehaven Myers (d. May 19, 2015) | ||
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1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).