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||2002 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (b. 1932) | ||2002 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (b. 1932) | ||
||Peter Gabriel Bergmann (d. 19 October 2002) was a German-American physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions. He also introduced primary and secondary constraints into mechanics. | |||
||2007 – Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1917) | ||2007 – Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1917) | ||
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1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.