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||Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev (b. August 30, 1918) was a prominent Soviet engineer, space and defence industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine Building. | ||Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev (b. August 30, 1918) was a prominent Soviet engineer, space and defence industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine Building. | ||
||1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) | ||1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German: [ˈviːn]; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature. | ||
||1940 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856) | ||1940 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856) | ||
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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.