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||1926 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) | ||1926 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) | ||
||Yuri Andreevich Yappa (b. September 21, 1927) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist. He is known for publications on particle physics, quantum field theory, General Relativity, philosophy of science, and for his graduate texts on classical electrodynamics and theory of spinors. Pic. | |||
||1942 – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. | ||1942 – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. | ||
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1576: Gerolamo Cardano dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
1577: Mathematician, cosmographer, and crime-fighter Pedro Nunes publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on navigation and cartography to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants at sea.
1792: French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy.
1853: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes born. He will receive widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".
1854: Signed first edition of Leonardo Draws Clock Head sells fifty thousand dollars.