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File:Point-contact transistor.png|link=Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]]. | File:Point-contact transistor.png|link=Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]]. | ||
||Frederick George Donnan (d. 16 December 1956) was an Irish physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells. Pic. | |||
|File:Gysin and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1967:[[Extract of Radium]] to party [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]]. | |File:Gysin and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1967:[[Extract of Radium]] to party [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]]. | ||
Revision as of 17:31, 26 March 2018
1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1887: Polymath and crime-fighter Francis Galton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
1968: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.