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||1925: Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee. | ||1925: Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee. | ||
|| | ||TO_DO: 1927: György Marx born ... physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor. He discovered the lepton numbers and established the law of lepton flavor conservation. Pic: crazy cool !! | ||
||1939: Sir Frank Watson Dyson dies. He was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic. | ||1939: Sir Frank Watson Dyson dies. He was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic. | ||
||1951: Nigel de Grey dies ... codebreaker. Son of the rector of Copdock, Suffolk, and grandson of the 5th Lord Walsingham, he was educated at Eton College and became fluent in French and German. In 1907 he joined the publishing firm of William Heinemann. As he was shy and physically small, a colleague labelled him "the dormouse". Pic search. | |||
||1953: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. | ||1953: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. | ||
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986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1488: Mathematician, architect, and APTO theological liason Antonio Manetti publishes new study of Dante's Inferno which anticipates later developments in high-energy literature.
1555: Physician, mathematician, and cartographer Gemma Frisius dies. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day, and applied mathematics to surveying and navigation in new ways.
1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.