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||1874: Heinrich Matthias Konen born ... physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1175&bih=668&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=FTCAW9PkLaufjwSgn6XoAg&q=Heinrich+Konen&oq=Heinrich+Konen&gs_l=img.3...3908464.3908464.0.3908896.1.1.0.0.0.0.290.290.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.img..0.0.0....0.4KnrtIlysyg#imgrc=76oBzXZb-gljNM: | ||1874: Heinrich Matthias Konen born ... physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1175&bih=668&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=FTCAW9PkLaufjwSgn6XoAg&q=Heinrich+Konen&oq=Heinrich+Konen&gs_l=img.3...3908464.3908464.0.3908896.1.1.0.0.0.0.290.290.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.img..0.0.0....0.4KnrtIlysyg#imgrc=76oBzXZb-gljNM: | ||
||1893: Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt born ... biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction. | |||
||1915: Rita Harriet Harradence born ... biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic. | ||1915: Rita Harriet Harradence born ... biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic. | ||
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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.