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||1971: John Boyd Orr dies ... physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1971: John Boyd Orr dies ... physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1974: Cornelius Lanczos dies ... mathematician and physicist.
||1974: Cornelius Lanczos dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.


||1981: Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
||1981: Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.

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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.

    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.

  • 1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

    1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

  • 1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.

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