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||1625: Johann Bayer dies ... lawyer and cartographer. | ||1625: Johann Bayer dies ... lawyer and cartographer. | ||
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||1982: Ida Barney dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and academic. | ||1982: Ida Barney dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and academic. | ||
|| | ||1984: Charles Pisot dies ... mathematician. He is chiefly recognized as one of the primary investigators of the numerical set associated with his name, the Pisot–Vijayaraghavan numbers. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Pisot.html | ||
||1986: Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. | ||1986: Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. | ||
||1997: Edward Mills Purcell (d. March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. | |||
||1997: Edward Mills Purcell dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1997: Edward Mills Purcell dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1765: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce born. He will develop heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.
1766: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Daniel Bernoulli publishes new Gnomon algorithm function combining statistics and probability which anticipate later developments in quantum (or transdimensional) corporations.
1788: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1875: Flying bison (Bison pterobonasus) sighted near Roswell, New Mexico.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction) is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1875: Gambling Den Fight wins Royal Society award for most exciting new illustration of the year.
1886: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
1898: Theoretical physicist and crime fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals uses the equation of state for gases and liquids to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.