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||1837 – John Wesley Hyatt, American engineer (d. 1920) | ||1837 – John Wesley Hyatt, American engineer (d. 1920) | ||
||William Stanley Jr. (b. November 28, 1858) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he patented an all-steel vacuum bottle, and formed the Stanley Bottle Company. Pic. | |||
||1872 – Mary Somerville, Scottish-Italian astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1780) | ||1872 – Mary Somerville, Scottish-Italian astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1780) | ||
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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.