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||Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (d. 28 November 1914) was a German physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor in understanding electrochemical reactions. He formulated ion transport numbers and the first method for their measurements. | ||Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (d. 28 November 1914) was a German physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor in understanding electrochemical reactions. He formulated ion transport numbers and the first method for their measurements. | ||
||Wilfred Kaplan (b. November 28, 1915) was a professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations. Pic. | |||
||Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot (d. 28 November 1925) was a French physicist. | ||Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot (d. 28 November 1925) was a French physicist. | ||
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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.