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||1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) | ||1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) | ||
||Johann Gottfried Galle (d. 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify | |||
||1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) | ||1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) | ||
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1856: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
1938: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn uses combinatorics, logic, and Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and reverse crimes against mathematical constants.
1962: Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
2017: Signed first edition of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.