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||1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". | ||1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". | ||
||Anatol Rapoport (b. May 22, 1911) was a Russian-born American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion. Pic. | |||
||1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) | ||1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) | ||
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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.