Template:Selected anniversaries/November 28: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 11: | Line 11: | ||
||1814 – The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer. | ||1814 – The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer. | ||
||Samuel Vince (d. 28 November 1821) was an English clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge. | |||
||1837 – John Wesley Hyatt, American engineer (d. 1920) | ||1837 – John Wesley Hyatt, American engineer (d. 1920) | ||
Revision as of 08:40, 1 December 2017
1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.
1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.