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Revision as of 21:24, 10 January 2020
Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones (nonfiction).
Are You Sure ...
... that physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox?
... that Intercontinental Ballistic Pizza is a transdimensional pizza delivery service based in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere?
On This Day in History and Fiction: June 29
1818: Astronomer, academic, and Jesuit Angelo Secchi born. Secchi will be a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, and one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2010: Chemist Marc Julia dies. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) discovered the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.
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