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||1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) | ||1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) | ||
||Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (d. May 14, 2006) a Soviet physicist, one of the founders of optical holography. He is known for his great contribution to holography, in particular for the so-called "Denisyuk hologram". Pic. | |||
||2015 – Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1937) | ||2015 – Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1937) | ||
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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.