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||1907: Lars Valerian Ahlfors born ... mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic. | ||1907: Lars Valerian Ahlfors born ... mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic. | ||
||1911: Maurice Goldhaber born ... physicist and academic. | ||1911: Maurice Goldhaber born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1915: Alvin Martin Weinberg born ... was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term "Faustian bargain" to describe nuclear energy. Pic. | ||1915: Alvin Martin Weinberg born ... was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term "Faustian bargain" to describe nuclear energy. Pic. | ||
||1936: Vladimir Hütt born ... physicist and philosopher. | ||1936: Vladimir Hütt born ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Vladimir+Hütt | ||
||1940: Joseph L. Goldstein born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1940: Joseph L. Goldstein born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate ... along with fellow University of Texas researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies regarding cholesterol. They discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood and that when LDL receptors are not present in sufficient numbers, individuals develop hypercholesterolemia and become at risk for cholesterol related diseases, notably coronary heart disease. Their studies led to the development of statin drugs. Pic. | ||
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1945: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] dies. He invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube. | File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1945: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] dies. He invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube. | ||
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1796: Physicist Johan Carl Wilcke dies. He invented the electrophorus, and calculated the latent heat of ice.
1860: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson uses embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space to locate and erase the Forbidden Ratio.
1891: Charles Sanders Peirce publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1907: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein hosts an all-star benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding of San Francisco.
1945: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming dies. He invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
1946: Mathematician and academic Alice Beta writes a letter to Albert Einstein, warning Einstein that his theories are at risk from the so-called Forbidden Ratio and other criminal mathematical functions.
1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein dies. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
1963: Vandal Savage Press is front for clandestiphrine manufacturing operation, charges mathematician and detective Alice Beta.
2011: Mathematician Curt Meyer dies. He made notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.
2018: Signed first edition of Purple Racer unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence after being exposed to Cherenkov radiation during an unauthorized experiment in high-energy literature.
