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File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1089: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] dies. | File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1089: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] dies. | ||
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||1977: Alfred Schild dies ... physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975). Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4 | ||1977: Alfred Schild dies ... physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975). Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4 | ||
||2019: Murray Gell-Mann dies ... physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. Pic. | ||2019: Murray Gell-Mann dies ... physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. Pic. | ||
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1089: Celebrated jurist and monk Lanfranc dies.
1543: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
1686: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1734: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
1844: Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
1928: Mathematician Bertram Kostant born. He will be one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.
1940: Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1974: Physicist Clyde Cowan dies. Cowan, along with Frederick Reines, discovered the neutrino in 1956; Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.