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||1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) | ||1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) | ||
||Johannes (Jan) Martinus Burgers (d. June 7, 1981) was a Dutch physicist. He will discover Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory, and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity. Pic. | |||
||1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. | ||1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. | ||
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1883: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley born. He will conduct espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities will only come to light after his death.
1884: Signed first edition of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess sells for eighty thousand dollars.
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1910: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield born. He will work on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provides the burst of neutrons that kick-starts the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.
1952: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing dies. He was influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
1959: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the upcoming BOMARC nuclear missile site explosion.
1961: Brainiac Explains magazine published detailed plans for simulating the BOMARC nuclear missile site explosion.
