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File:Jan Brożek.jpg|link=Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|1585: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] born. Brożek will contribute to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories, and be Copernicus' ardent supporter and early prospective biographer. | File:Jan Brożek.jpg|link=Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|1585: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] born. Brożek will contribute to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories, and be Copernicus' ardent supporter and early prospective biographer. | ||
||1730: Luigi Ferdinando Marsili dies ... scholar and eminent natural scientist, who also served as an emissary and soldier. Pic. | |||
File:Edmund Burke 1771.jpg|link=Edmund Burke (nonfiction)|1790: [[Edmund Burke (nonfiction)|Edmund Burke]] publishes ''Reflections on the Revolution in France'', in which he predicts that the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]] will end in a disaster. | File:Edmund Burke 1771.jpg|link=Edmund Burke (nonfiction)|1790: [[Edmund Burke (nonfiction)|Edmund Burke]] publishes ''Reflections on the Revolution in France'', in which he predicts that the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]] will end in a disaster. | ||
||1793: Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz born ... physician and botanist ... | ||1793: Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz born ... physician and botanist ... traveler. Pic. | ||
||1804: Johann Friedrich Gmelin dies ... naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist. Pic. | ||1804: Johann Friedrich Gmelin dies ... naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist. Pic. | ||
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||1870: In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast. | ||1870: In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast. | ||
||1879: Oskar Barnack born ... optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography. Pic. | |||
||1880: Alfred Wegener born ... meteorologist and geophysicist. Pic. | ||1880: Alfred Wegener born ... meteorologist and geophysicist. Pic. | ||
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||1954: John Lennard-Jones dies ... mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He may be regarded as the initiator of modern computational chemistry. Pic. | ||1954: John Lennard-Jones dies ... mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He may be regarded as the initiator of modern computational chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1954: Wallace Akers dies ... chemist and industrialist. Beginning his academic career at Oxford he specialized in physical chemistry. During the Second World War, he was the director of the Tube Alloys project, a clandestine programme aiming to research and develop British atomic weapons capabilities Pic. | |||
||1962: Thomas Murray MacRobert dies ... mathematician. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow and introduced the MacRobert E function, a generalisation of the generalised hypergeometric series. Pic: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2053&type=P | ||1962: Thomas Murray MacRobert dies ... mathematician. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow and introduced the MacRobert E function, a generalisation of the generalised hypergeometric series. Pic: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2053&type=P | ||
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||2008: Jacques Piccard dies ... oceanographer and engineer. Pic. | ||2008: Jacques Piccard dies ... oceanographer and engineer. Pic. | ||
||2015: Charles Duncan Michener dies ... entomologist ... leading expert on bees, his magnum opus being ''The Bees of the World''. Michener's work on social evolution in the Halictidae in the 1960s helped set the stage for the sociobiology revolution of the 1970s, with E. O. Wilson relying to a great degree on Michener's concepts regarding the paths from solitary to highly social life. Pic. | |||
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1585: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek born. Brożek will contribute to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories, and be Copernicus' ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
1790: Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1932: Broadway production based on famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing is a smash hit.
1967: Aerospace engineer and weapons designer Ludwig Roth dies. During World War II, Roth headed Germany's Future Projects Office which designed the Wasserfall and created advanced rocket designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM. Near the end of the war, Roth was recruited by American intelligence under Operation Paperclip.
1973: Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1993: Biochemist and academic Severo Ochoa dies. In 1959, Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid".
1999: American physicist and Soviet spy Theodore Hall dies. During his work on US efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II (the Manhattan Project), Hall gave Soviet intelligence a detailed description of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, along with several processes for purifying plutonium.