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||1998 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922) | ||1998 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922) | ||
||Dennis William Siahou Sciama, FRS (d. 18/19 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. | |||
||2004 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) | ||2004 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) | ||
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1601: Mathematician Robert Fludd uses Gnomon algorithm to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
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1901: Inventor and engineer Rudolf Hell born. He will invent the Hellschreiber teleprinter system.
1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.