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||2002: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ole-Johan+Dahl | ||2002: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ole-Johan+Dahl | ||
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||2013: Margherita Hack dies ... astrophysicist and author. Pic. | ||2013: Margherita Hack dies ... astrophysicist and author. Pic. | ||
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1818: Astronomer, academic, and Jesuit Angelo Secchi born. Secchi will be a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, and one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1869: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Astonishing Illustration of the Year.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
1963: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses new theory of quantum electronics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2010: Chemist Marc Julia dies. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) discovered the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.