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File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1781: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman. | File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1781: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman. | ||
||1801 – George Bradshaw, English cartographer and publisher (d. 1853) | |||
||1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher (d. 1859) | |||
||1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1755) | ||1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1755) | ||
||1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia. | |||
||1888 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (d. 1982) | |||
||1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988) | |||
||1923 – Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014) | |||
||1925 – Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (d. 2014) | ||1925 – Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (d. 2014) | ||
File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "[[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]]" of World War I veterans. | |||
||1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established. | |||
||1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). | |||
||1994 – Dorothy Hodgkin, Egyptian-English biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) | |||
||1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1920) | ||1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1920) | ||
||2001 – Wau Holland, German computer scientist, co-founded Chaos Computer Club (b. 1951) | |||
||2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris. | |||
||2008 – Bruce Edward Ivins, American scientist and bio-defense researcher (b. 1946) | |||
||2010 – Charles E. Wicks, American chemist and academic (b. 1925) | |||
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Revision as of 19:20, 23 July 2017
1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.
1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.