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||1995: Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time. | ||1995: Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time. | ||
||1998: Frank | ||1998: Frank Rowlett dies ... cryptologist. Pic. | ||
||2013: Margherita Hack dies ... astrophysicist and author. Pic. | |||
||2018: Arvid Carlsson dies ... pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate, dopamine. Pic. | ||2018: Arvid Carlsson dies ... pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate, dopamine. Pic. | ||
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1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1869: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Astonishing Illustration of the Year.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
1963: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses new theory of quantum electronics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.