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||1880: Abram Ioffe born ... physicist and academic ... an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics | ||1880: Abram Ioffe born ... physicist and academic ... an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics | ||
||1909: Hans Neurath dies ... biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry | |||
||1921: Bill Mauldin born ... soldier and cartoonist. | ||1921: Bill Mauldin born ... soldier and cartoonist. | ||
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||1933: Paul Painlevé dies ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France. | ||1933: Paul Painlevé dies ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France. | ||
||Heinrich Biltz | ||1943: Heinrich Biltz dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Long Shot film still.jpg|link=Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1965 Oct. 29: ''[[Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Long Shot]]'' nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States. | File:Long Shot film still.jpg|link=Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1965 Oct. 29: ''[[Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Long Shot]]'' nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States. | ||
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||2004: Ordal Demokan dies ... physicist and academic. | ||2004: Ordal Demokan dies ... physicist and academic. | ||
||2004: Peter Twinn dies ... mathematician and entomologist | ||2004: Peter Twinn dies ... mathematician and entomologist. | ||
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1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1965 Oct. 29: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.