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||1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) | ||1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) | ||
||Warren Perry Mason (d. 23 August 1986) was an American electrical engineer and physicist working at Bell Labs. He founded the field of distributed element circuits; was the first to experimentally show viscoelasticity in individual molecules; found experimental evidence of electron-phonon coupling in solids; and made measurements that aided the theories of phonon drag and superconductivity. Pic. | |||
||Hans Lewy (d. 23 August 1988) was a German born American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables. Pic. | ||Hans Lewy (d. 23 August 1988) was a German born American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables. Pic. | ||
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1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.
1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.
1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.
2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.