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||1940: Robert William Theodore Gunther dies ... historian of science, zoologist, and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Robert+William+Theodore+Gunther
||1940: Robert William Theodore Gunther dies ... historian of science, zoologist, and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Robert+William+Theodore+Gunther
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1941: ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is "proof that [[The Eel]] is a criminal," according to [[Baron Zersetzung]].


File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born.  Raskin will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born.  Raskin will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
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||2011: Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
||2011: Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
File:Red Spiral 3.jpg|link=Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 3]]'' used in routine [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly develops spontaneous [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]].


||2016: Reinhold Remmert dies ... mathematician. Born in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, he studied mathematics, mathematical logic and physics in Münster. He established and developed the theory of complex-analytic spaces in joint work with Hans Grauert. Pic.
||2016: Reinhold Remmert dies ... mathematician. Born in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, he studied mathematics, mathematical logic and physics in Münster. He established and developed the theory of complex-analytic spaces in joint work with Hans Grauert. Pic.

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  • 1815: Electrical engineer and inventor Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.

    1815: Electrical engineer and inventor Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.

  • 1851: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted dies. Ørsted discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

    1851: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted dies. Ørsted discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

  • 1923: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn born. Kohn will develop density functional theory, which will make it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.

    1923: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn born. Kohn will develop density functional theory, which will make it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.

  • 1928: Engineer Gerald Bull born. Bull will attempt to build artillery guns capable of launching satellites into orbit.

    1928: Engineer Gerald Bull born. Bull will attempt to build artillery guns capable of launching satellites into orbit.

  • 1943: Computer scientist Jef Raskin born. Raskin will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

    1943: Computer scientist Jef Raskin born. Raskin will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

  • 1981: Biophysicist Max Delbrück dies. Delbrück helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s; his ideas stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time.

    1981: Biophysicist Max Delbrück dies. Delbrück helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s; his ideas stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time.

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