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||Hans Friedrich Geitel (b. 16 July 1855 in Braunschweig) was a German physicist. | ||Hans Friedrich Geitel (b. 16 July 1855 in Braunschweig) was a German physicist. | ||
||1876: Alfred Stock born ... a German inorganic chemist. He did pioneering research on the hydrides of boron and silicon, coordination chemistry, mercury, and mercury poisoning. The German Chemical Society's Alfred-Stock Memorial Prize is named after him. Pic. | |||
||1888 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966) | ||1888 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966) | ||
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1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.
1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.
1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says the Manhattan Project is "a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."
1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.