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||Yuri Andreevich Yappa (d. August 19, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist. He is known for publications on particle physics, quantum field theory, General Relativity, philosophy of science, and for his graduate texts on classical electrodynamics and theory of spinors. Pic.
||Yuri Andreevich Yappa (d. August 19, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist. He is known for publications on particle physics, quantum field theory, General Relativity, philosophy of science, and for his graduate texts on classical electrodynamics and theory of spinors. Pic.
||Kenneth N. Stevens (d. August 19, 2013) was the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. Stevens was head of the Speech Communication Group in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and was one of the world's leading scientists in acoustic phonetics. Pic.


||Walter Thirring (d. 19 August 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named.
||Walter Thirring (d. 19 August 2014) was an Austrian physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named.

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  • 1662: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal dies. He did pioneering work on calculating machines.

    1662: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal dies. He did pioneering work on calculating machines.

  • 1822: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre dies. He was one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.

    1822: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre dies. He was one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.

  • 1823: Red Eyes Fighting depicts martial artist and crime-fighter Red Eyes breaking up a math lab.

    1823: Red Eyes Fighting depicts martial artist and crime-fighter Red Eyes breaking up a math lab.

  • 1906: Inventor Philo Farnsworth born. He will make many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.

    1906: Inventor Philo Farnsworth born. He will make many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.

  • 1993: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.

    1993: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.

  • 1994: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling dies.

    1994: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling dies.

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