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||2005 – Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) | ||2005 – Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) | ||
||Hans Albrecht Bethe ( | ||Hans Albrecht Bethe (d. March 6, 2005) was a German and American nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis | ||
File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|2017: ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year." | File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|2017: ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year." | ||
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Revision as of 15:17, 4 November 2017
1876: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes uses continued fraction theory to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1939: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1981: Modern dance company Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the life of Ayn Rand.
1982: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand dies.
2017: The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year."