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||1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
||1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
||Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman (d. May 5, 2007) was an American engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic.


||Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (d. May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum."
||Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (d. May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum."

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  • 1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

    1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

  • 1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

    1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

  • 1869: Friedrich Nietzsche uses his doctrine of eternal return to hunt down and capture math criminals.

    1869: Friedrich Nietzsche uses his doctrine of eternal return to hunt down and capture math criminals.

  • 1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

    1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

  • 1965: Mathematician Karl Menger uses formalized definitions of the notions of angle and of curvature in terms of directly measurable physical quantities (ratios of distance values) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1965: Mathematician Karl Menger uses formalized definitions of the notions of angle and of curvature in terms of directly measurable physical quantities (ratios of distance values) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2017: The Eel Time-Surfing wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade."

    2017: The Eel Time-Surfing wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade."

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