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||Max Bergmann (b. 12 February 1886) was a Jewish-German biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides. | ||Max Bergmann (b. 12 February 1886) was a Jewish-German biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides. | ||
||Enrico Bompiani (b. 12 February 1889) was an Italian mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. | |||
||1897 – Lincoln LaPaz, American astronomer and academic (d. 1985) | ||1897 – Lincoln LaPaz, American astronomer and academic (d. 1985) |
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1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.
1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.
1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).
1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.