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||1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) | ||1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) | ||
||Alfred Landé (d. 30 October 1976) was a German-American physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman effect. | |||
||1979 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the "bouncing bomb" (b. 1887) | ||1979 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the "bouncing bomb" (b. 1887) | ||
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1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.