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||1898: Isidor Isaac Rabi born ... physicist and academic ... Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. | ||1898: Isidor Isaac Rabi born ... physicist and academic ... Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. | ||
||1898: Lysander Button dies ... engineer. Pic: fire engine. | |||
||1904: Dmitri Dmitrievich Ivanenko born ... theoretical physicist who made a great contributions to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to nuclear physics, field theory, and gravitation theory. | ||1904: Dmitri Dmitrievich Ivanenko born ... theoretical physicist who made a great contributions to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to nuclear physics, field theory, and gravitation theory. | ||
Revision as of 21:57, 26 February 2019
1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.
1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Boole develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.
