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• ... that physician and archaeologist '''[[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]]''' (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was among the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones?
• ... that physician and archaeologist '''[[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]]''' (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was among the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones?


• ... that German weapons engineer and artillery general '''Karl Heinrich Emil Becker''' (14 September 1879 – 8 April 1940) advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development; that he was an early and key supporter of the development of ballistic rockets as weapons; that the military-scientific infrastructure he helped implement supported the German nuclear energy program, known as the Uranium Club; that he committed suicide in 1940, suffering from depression over criticism from Hitler; and that Becker was given a State funeral?
• ... that physicist '''[[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]]''' (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) discovered superconductivity in 1911, writing in his notebook on April 8: ''Kwik nagenoeg nul'' ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].").


• ... that inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor '''[[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]]''' (8 April 1732 – 26 June 1796) was the first Director of the United States Mint, and that Rittenhouse personally struck the new nation's first coins by hand?
• ... that inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor '''[[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]]''' (8 April 1732 – 26 June 1796) was the first Director of the United States Mint, and that Rittenhouse personally struck the new nation's first coins by hand?
• ... that mathematician '''[[Louis François Antoine Arbogast (nonfiction)|Louis François Antoine Arbogast]]''' (4 October 1759 – 8 April 1803) was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity, and that he wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name?

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• ... that physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was among the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones?

• ... that physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) discovered superconductivity in 1911, writing in his notebook on April 8: Kwik nagenoeg nul ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].").

• ... that inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse (8 April 1732 – 26 June 1796) was the first Director of the United States Mint, and that Rittenhouse personally struck the new nation's first coins by hand?

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