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||1909: Midori Naka born ... stage actress of the Shingeki style, famous in her country at the time of her death. She survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, only to die 18 days later. She was the first person in the world whose death was officially certified to be a result of radiation poisoning. Her notability helped publicize the adverse effects of exposure to radiation and encouraged more research on this area. Pic. | ||1909: Midori Naka born ... stage actress of the Shingeki style, famous in her country at the time of her death. She survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, only to die 18 days later. She was the first person in the world whose death was officially certified to be a result of radiation poisoning. Her notability helped publicize the adverse effects of exposure to radiation and encouraged more research on this area. Pic. | ||
||1910: Paul Flory born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1910: Paul Flory born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1922: Aage Bohr born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1922: Aage Bohr born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1926: Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli born. Pic. | ||1926: Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli born. Pic. | ||
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1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.
1624: Physician, mathematician, and crime-fighter Joseph Solomon Delmedigo publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and banishes demons.
1771: Mathematician and logician Joseph Diez Gergonne born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.
1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
1858: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1865: Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Heroic War Illustration of the Year.