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||1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott. | ||1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott. | ||
||1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) | ||1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids.[2] Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. | ||
||1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) | ||1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) | ||
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1844: Astronomer Francis Baily dies. He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).
1905: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1954: The Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division announces daily Flying Diner breakfast and dinner flights between San Francisco and New Minneapolis.
2013: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney dies. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2017: Leonardo Draws Clock Head wins Newbery Award for Best Children's Book Cover of the Year.