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||1979 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900) | ||1979 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900) | ||
||George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky (d. December 7, 1982) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Pic. | |||
||1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34. | ||1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34. | ||
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903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.
1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.
1929: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl uses fermions (now known as Weyl semimetals) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.