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||1857: Biochemist and pharmacologist John Jacob Abel born. Abel will contribute to the development of an early form of dialysis machine, and discover how to isolate and crystallize insulin. Pic. | ||1857: Biochemist and pharmacologist John Jacob Abel born. Abel will contribute to the development of an early form of dialysis machine, and discover how to isolate and crystallize insulin. Pic. | ||
File:Ruth Ella Moore.jpg|link=Ruth Ella Moore (nonfiction)|1903: Bacteriologist [[Ruth Ella Moore (nonfiction)|Ruth Ella Moore]] born. She will research tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans. | File:Ruth Ella Moore.jpg|link=Ruth Ella Moore (nonfiction)|1903: Bacteriologist [[Ruth Ella Moore (nonfiction)|Ruth Ella Moore]] born. She will research tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans. | ||
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||1950: A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. | ||1950: A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. | ||
File:Venera 1.jpg|link=Venera 1 (nonfiction)|1961: [[Venera 1 (nonfiction)|Venera 1]] becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). | File:Venera 1.jpg|link=Venera 1 (nonfiction)|1961: [[Venera 1 (nonfiction)|Venera 1]] becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). | ||
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||1979: Ralph Duncan James dies ... was a Canadian mathematician working on number theory and mathematical analysis. Pic: https://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/cj.html | ||1979: Ralph Duncan James dies ... was a Canadian mathematician working on number theory and mathematical analysis. Pic: https://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/cj.html | ||
||1996: Roy Mason dies - 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. | |||
||2009: Robert F. Furchgott dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||2009: Robert F. Furchgott dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2]] launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2]] launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission. | ||
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1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The Thermometer of Lyon will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will research tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1918: Physicist, historian, and academic Abraham Pais born. Pais will be an assistant to Niels Bohr, and a colleague of Albert Einstein, and later write books documenting the lives of these two great physicists and the contributions they and others made to modern physics.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1971: The Soviet Union launches the Mars 2 spacecraft. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute.
2017: Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov dies. Petrov became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission.