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||2014: Peter Glaser dies ... scientist and engineer. | ||2014: Peter Glaser dies ... scientist and engineer. | ||
||2014: Walter Jakob Gehring dies ... biologist and academic. Gehring researched ''Drosophila'' genetics and development, particularly the analysis of cell determination in the embryo and transdetermination of imaginal discs. Pic. | |||
File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of [[Blue (nonfiction)|blue]]. | File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of [[Blue (nonfiction)|blue]]. | ||
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1777: Physician and engineer John Mudge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
1917: Politician John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born.
1919: Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin view a solar eclipse as a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Flower reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of blue.