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||2001 – The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature. | ||2001 – The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature. | ||
||Kazuhiko Nishijima (d. 15 February 2009) was a Japanese physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. Pic. | |||
||2012 – Cyril Domb, English-Israel physicist and academic (b. 1920) | ||2012 – Cyril Domb, English-Israel physicist and academic (b. 1920) | ||
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1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.
1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
2011: The Stardust spacecraft files by comet Tempel 1.