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||1968 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878) | ||1968 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878) | ||
File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1972: [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] spacecraft is switched off. During its mission, Mariner | File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1972: The [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] spacecraft is switched off. During its mission, Mariner mapped 70% of the surface of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]], and studied temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface. | ||
||1973 – A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado. | ||1973 – A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado. | ||
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||1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927) | ||1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927) | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' remembers [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]], which was switched off forty-five years ago. | |||
|File:Wumpuss-compass.jpg|link=Wumpus-compass|[[Wumpus-compass]] syndrome linked to [[Extract of Radium]] binge. | |File:Wumpuss-compass.jpg|link=Wumpus-compass|[[Wumpus-compass]] syndrome linked to [[Extract of Radium]] binge. |
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1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.