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||Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson (b. 1903) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. | ||Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson (b. 1903) was an American mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. | ||
||Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAA (b. 27 January 1903) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. | |||
||1912 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher and environmentalist (d. 2009) | ||1912 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher and environmentalist (d. 2009) | ||
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1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine counteract effects of Extract of Radium.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.