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||1947 – Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1947 – Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||
||Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers (d. 24 April 1952) was a Dutch physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter. | |||
File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. | File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. | ||
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1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1863: Printer, inventor, and crime-fighter Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville patents new type of phonoautograph, which records crimes against mathematical constants as photographic images.
1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.