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||1911: Norman Heatley born ... biologist and chemist. | ||1911: Norman Heatley born ... biologist and chemist. | ||
||1916 | ||1916: Biochemist and academic Sune Bergström born. Bergström shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Pic. | ||
||1916: Neal R. Amundson born ... chemical engineer and mathematician. Amundson was considered one of the most prominent chemical engineering educators and researchers in the United States. Pic. | ||1916: Neal R. Amundson born ... chemical engineer and mathematician. Amundson was considered one of the most prominent chemical engineering educators and researchers in the United States. Pic. | ||
||1918: Alexander | ||1918: Alexander Brudno born ... computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. Pic. | ||
||1918: Res Jost born ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory. | ||1918: Res Jost born ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory. Pic. | ||
||1919: Wallace Clement Sabine dies ... physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. Pic. | ||1919: Wallace Clement Sabine dies ... physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. Pic. | ||
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||2010: Oscar Sala dies ... nuclear physicist and academic. He will be a leading figure in Brazilian scientific research. Pic search tech: https://www.google.com/search?q=Oscar+Sala | ||2010: Oscar Sala dies ... nuclear physicist and academic. He will be a leading figure in Brazilian scientific research. Pic search tech: https://www.google.com/search?q=Oscar+Sala | ||
||2012: Gevork Vartanian dies... Russian intelligence agent. | ||2012: Gevork Vartanian dies... Russian intelligence agent. He was primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. Pic. | ||
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1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1960: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, announces world tour.