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||1888 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (d. 1982) | ||1888 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (d. 1982) | ||
||1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988) | ||1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988) Isidor Isaac Rabi (/ˈrɑːbi/; born Israel Isaac Rabi, 29 July 1898 – 11 January 1988) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. | ||
||1923 – Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014) | ||1923 – Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014) | ||
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1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.
1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Boole develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.