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||2008: Michael Crichton dies ... physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter. | ||2008: Michael Crichton dies ... physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter. | ||
||2011: Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. dies . | File:Norman F. Ramsey Jr.jpg|link=Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (nonfiction)|2011: Physicist [[Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (nonfiction)|Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.]] dies. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which have important applications in the construction of atomic clocks. | ||
||2014: S. Donald Stookey dies ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare. | ||2014: S. Donald Stookey dies ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare. | ||
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1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.
1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter James Clerk Maxwell publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.
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1974: First episode of Euglena Junction airs on ABC.
2011: Physicist Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. dies. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which have important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.
2017: Fire Dance voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.