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||1895 – William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982) | ||1895 – William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982) | ||
||Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth (b. May 1, 1898) was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). | |||
||1910 – Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994) | ||1910 – Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994) | ||
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1825: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses census data to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1960: Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon warns that U-2 incident may have released a new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1970: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.