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||2008 – Michael Crichton, American physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942) | ||2008 – Michael Crichton, American physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942) | ||
||Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (d. November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks. Pic. | |||
||2014 – S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (b. 1915) | ||2014 – S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (b. 1915) | ||
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1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter James Clerk Maxwell publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.