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||Thomas Tommasina (d. 29 January 1935) was an artist turned physicist who worked on atmospheric ionization and gravitational theories mainly after moving to Switzerland. An experimenter as well as a theoretician, he invented a radio-receiver-like device while studying ionospheric disturbances in the upper atmosphere and used it in long-range weather prediction. | ||Thomas Tommasina (d. 29 January 1935) was an artist turned physicist who worked on atmospheric ionization and gravitational theories mainly after moving to Switzerland. An experimenter as well as a theoretician, he invented a radio-receiver-like device while studying ionospheric disturbances in the upper atmosphere and used it in long-range weather prediction. | ||
File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1944: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | |File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1944: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | ||
||William Francis Gray Swann (d. January 29, 1962) was an Anglo-American physicist. | |||
File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1997: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] refuses to disclose private key. | File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1997: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] refuses to disclose private key. | ||
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1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.
1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.
1916: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.
1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
1997: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation refuses to disclose private key.
2009: New study links Evil bit release with capacitor plague.