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||1903: Miron Nicolescu born mathematician. | ||1903: Miron Nicolescu born mathematician. | ||
||1909: Emil Christian Hansen dies ... mycologist who revolutionized beer-making through development of new ways to culture yeast. He financed his education by writing novels. Though he never reached an M.Sc., in 1876, he received a gold medal for an essay on fungi. In 1879, he became superintendent of the Carlsberg breweries. In 1883, he successfully developed a cultivated yeast that revolutionized beer-making around the world, because Hansen by refusing to patent his method made it freely available to other brewers. He also proved there are different species of yeast. Hansen separated two species: Saccaromyces cerevisae, an over-yeast (floating on the surface of the fermenting beer) and S. carlsbergensis*, an under-yeast (laying on the bottom of the liquid). Pic. | ||1903: Physicist Rudolf Kühnhold born. He will research both sonar and radar, often given credit for initiating research that led to the ''Funkmessgerät'' in Germany. No death date. Deutch Wiki: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_K%C3%BChnhold Pic: https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=172747&start=255 | ||
||1909: Emil Christian Hansen dies ... mycologist who revolutionized beer-making through development of new ways to culture yeast. He financed his education by writing novels. Though he never reached an M.Sc., in 1876, he received a gold medal for an essay on fungi. In 1879, he became superintendent of the Carlsberg breweries. In 1883, he successfully developed a cultivated yeast that revolutionized beer-making around the world, because Hansen by refusing to patent his method made it freely available to other brewers. He also proved there are different species of yeast. Hansen separated two species: Saccaromyces cerevisae, an over-yeast (floating on the surface of the fermenting beer) and ''S. carlsbergensis''*, an under-yeast (laying on the bottom of the liquid). Pic. | |||
||1910: Giovanni Schiaparelli dies ... astronomer and historian. | ||1910: Giovanni Schiaparelli dies ... astronomer and historian. | ||
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1858: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.
1926: Chemist and composer George Brecht born. He will be a conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who will work as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
2003: Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Reality Television Show.