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||1970: Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
||1970: Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
||1974: Heinrich Greinacher dies - physicist. He is regarded as an original experimenter and is the developer of the magnetron and the Greinacher multiplier.


||1974: Hugh Stott Taylor dies ... chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1925, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalyzed chemical reaction is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centers. He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions. Pic search.
||1974: Hugh Stott Taylor dies ... chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1925, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalyzed chemical reaction is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centers. He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions. Pic search.

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