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||1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980) | ||1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980) | ||
|| | ||Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (b. 25 June 1928) was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. Pic. | ||
||1935 – Charles Sheffield, English-American mathematician, physicist, and author (d. 2002) | ||1935 – Charles Sheffield, English-American mathematician, physicist, and author (d. 2002) | ||
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1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.
1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.