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||1814: Gabriel Auguste Daubrée born ... geologist, engineer, and academic. He will be distinguished for his long-continued and often dangerous experiments on the artificial production of minerals and rocks. Pic. | ||1814: Gabriel Auguste Daubrée born ... geologist, engineer, and academic. He will be distinguished for his long-continued and often dangerous experiments on the artificial production of minerals and rocks. Pic. | ||
||1864: Walther Nernst born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1864: Walther Nernst born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1866: Alexander von Nordmann dies ... biologist and paleontologist. | ||1866: Alexander von Nordmann dies ... biologist and paleontologist. | ||
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||1960: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union. | ||1960: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union. | ||
||1961: Ricky Gervais born ... stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and singer. | |||
||1971: John Boyd Orr dies ... physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1971: John Boyd Orr dies ... physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.
1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.