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||1887 – Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist and philanthropist (d. 1975) | ||1887 – Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist and philanthropist (d. 1975) | ||
||Horace Richard Crane (b. November 4, 1907) was an American physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, [1][2] a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons".[3] He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos. | |||
||1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005) | ||1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005) | ||
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1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter James Clerk Maxwell publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.