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File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1887: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] marries Clara Ripley. | File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1887: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] marries Clara Ripley. | ||
||Carl Remigius Fresenius (d. 11 June 1897), was a German chemist, known for his studies in analytical chemistry. Pic. | |||
||Ivar Waller (b. 11 June 1898) was a Swedish professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. He developed the theory of X-ray scattering by lattice vibrations of a crystal, building upon the prior work of Peter Debye. Pic. | ||Ivar Waller (b. 11 June 1898) was a Swedish professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. He developed the theory of X-ray scattering by lattice vibrations of a crystal, building upon the prior work of Peter Debye. Pic. | ||
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||1943 – Henry Hill, American mobster (d. 2012) | ||1943 – Henry Hill, American mobster (d. 2012) | ||
|| | File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to [[Thefixisin]]. | ||
||Maurice Audin (d. after 11 June 1957) was a French mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who was one of the "disappeared" during the Battle of Algiers. Pic. | |||
||1965 – Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908) | ||1965 – Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908) | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.