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||1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) | ||1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) | ||
||Derrick Henry Lehmer (d. May 22, 1991) was an American mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic. | |||
||1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) | ||1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) | ||
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.