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||1873: Alexander Bogdanov born ... physician and philosopher. Pic.
||1873: Alexander Bogdanov born ... physician and philosopher. Pic.


||1985: Paul Peter Ewald dies ... physicist and crystallographer whose theory of X-ray interference by crystals was the first detailed, rigorous theoretical explanation of the diffraction effects first observed in 1912 by his fellow physicist Max von Laue. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_22.htm
||1985: Paul Peter Ewald dies ... physicist and crystallographer whose theory of X-ray interference by crystals was the first detailed, rigorous theoretical explanation of the diffraction effects first observed in 1912 by his fellow physicist Max von Laue. Pic search.


||1907: Abraham Sinkov born ... cryptanalyst. Pic.
||1907: Abraham Sinkov born ... cryptanalyst. Pic.
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File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] born.  ''The New York Times'' will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] born.  ''The New York Times'' will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".


||1921: Bernard d'Espagnat born ... theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and author, best known for his work on the nature of reality. Pic: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16769-concept-of-hypercosmic-god-wins-templeton-prize/
||1920: Surgeon Denton Arthur Cooley born. Cooley will perform the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Pic.


||1923: Hidehiko Yamabe born ... mathematician. Famous for discovering that every conformal class on a smooth compact manifold is represented by a Riemannian metric of constant scalar curvature. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hidehiko+Yamabe
||1921: Bernard d'Espagnat born ... theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and author, best known for his work on the nature of reality. Pic search.
 
||1923: Hidehiko Yamabe born ... mathematician. Famous for discovering that every conformal class on a smooth compact manifold is represented by a Riemannian metric of constant scalar curvature. Pic search.


||1926: Charles William Eliot dies ... mathematician and academic. Selected as Harvard's president in 1869, Eliot transformed the provincial college into the pre-eminent American research university. Pic.
||1926: Charles William Eliot dies ... mathematician and academic. Selected as Harvard's president in 1869, Eliot transformed the provincial college into the pre-eminent American research university. Pic.

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