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||1923 – Irving Millman, American virologist and microbiologist (d. 2012) | ||1923 – Irving Millman, American virologist and microbiologist (d. 2012) | ||
|| | ||Joshua Lederberg (b. May 23, 1925) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic. | ||
||1934 – Robert Moog, electronic engineer and inventor of the Moog synthesizer (d. 2005) | ||1934 – Robert Moog, electronic engineer and inventor of the Moog synthesizer (d. 2005) | ||
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1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
1917: Mathematician Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.
1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.