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||Bruno Benedetto Rossi (d. 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. | ||Bruno Benedetto Rossi (d. 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. | ||
|| | File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|link=Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|1926: Theoretical physicist [[Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|Mohammad Abdus Salam]] dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. | ||
||2009 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1926) | ||2009 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1926) | ||
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1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
1675: Isaac Newton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1676: Astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1904: Mechanical engineer Clock Head 2 warns theoretical physicist Albert Einstein that the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², will have "earth-shaking consequences."
1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
1926: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.