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File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One]]'' (Peenemunde edition).
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One]]'' (Peenemunde edition).
||Roger Yonchien Tsien (b. February 1, 1952) was an American biochemist and academic.  He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie. Pic.


||1958 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
||1958 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

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  • 1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

    1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

  • 1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter Charles Étienne Louis Camus publishes updated edition of Cours de mathématiques with new section on the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1767: Mathematician and crime-fighter Charles Étienne Louis Camus publishes updated edition of Cours de mathématiques with new section on the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1893: Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

    1893: Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

  • 1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.

    1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.

  • 1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Imre Lakatos uses his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Imre Lakatos uses his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).

    1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).

  • 1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.

    1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.

  • 1976: Mathematician Bertram Kostant uses geometric quantization to detect and record the electroquantum afterlife of Werner Heisenberg.

    1976: Mathematician Bertram Kostant uses geometric quantization to detect and record the electroquantum afterlife of Werner Heisenberg.

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