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File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1868: Astronomer and journalist [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes. | File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1868: Astronomer and journalist [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes. | ||
||1873: Leo Frobenius born ... ethnologist and archaeologist. | ||1873: Leo Frobenius born ... ethnologist and archaeologist. | ||
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||1924: Robert Simpson Woodward dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||1924: Robert Simpson Woodward dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1938: Roy Mason born - lecturer, writer, and futuristic architect who designed and built a variety of futuristic homes and other buildings in the 1970s and 1980s using low cost materials and alternative energy sources. Mason invented architronics as exemplified in the Xanadu House. Pic. | |||
||1975: Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer. | ||1975: Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer. |
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1818: Astronomer, academic, and Jesuit Angelo Secchi born. Secchi will be a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, and one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2010: Chemist Marc Julia dies. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) discovered the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.