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||1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) | ||1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) | ||
||1917 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835) | |||
||1917 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835) Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German: [ˈbaɪɐ]; 31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917) was a German chemist who synthesised indigo, developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature). | |||
||1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit. | ||1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit. | ||
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1672: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt dies in a riot. The rioters will partially eat his body.
1923: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1961: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman dies. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.