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||1941 – Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. | ||1941 – Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. | ||
File:William Shockley.jpg|William Shockley (nonfiction)|1951: Physicist and engineer [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] announces the invention of the junction transistor. | File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1951: Physicist and engineer [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] announces the invention of the junction transistor. | ||
||1961 – On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years. | ||1961 – On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years. | ||
Revision as of 08:40, 4 July 2017
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1883: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
1998: Signed first edition of Leonardo Draws Clock Head sells for one and a half million dollars.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2017: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.