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||1996: Maxwell or Max Erich (Eric) Reissner dies ... civil engineer and mathematician. He is remembered by the New York Times (1996) as the "mathematician whose work in applied mechanics helped broaden the theoretical understanding of how solid objects react under stress and led to advances in both civil and aerospace engineering." Pic. | ||1996: Maxwell or Max Erich (Eric) Reissner dies ... civil engineer and mathematician. He is remembered by the New York Times (1996) as the "mathematician whose work in applied mechanics helped broaden the theoretical understanding of how solid objects react under stress and led to advances in both civil and aerospace engineering." Pic. | ||
||1999: Theodore Hall dies | File:Theodore Hall ID badge.png|link=Theodore Hall (nonfiction)|1999: American physicist and Soviet spy [[Theodore Hall (nonfiction)|Theodore Hall]] dies. During his work on US efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II (the Manhattan Project), Hall gave a detailed description of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, and of several processes for purifying plutonium, to Soviet intelligence. | ||
||2006: Leon Albert Henkin dies ... logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was principally known for "Henkin construction", his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic. Pic. | ||2006: Leon Albert Henkin dies ... logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was principally known for "Henkin construction", his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic. Pic. | ||
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1585: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek born. Brożek will contribute to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories, and be Copernicus' ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
1790: Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1932: Broadway production based on famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing is a smash hit.
1973: Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1993: Biochemist and academic Severo Ochoa dies. In 1959, Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid".
1999: American physicist and Soviet spy Theodore Hall dies. During his work on US efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II (the Manhattan Project), Hall gave a detailed description of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, and of several processes for purifying plutonium, to Soviet intelligence.