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||2002: Nikolay Rukavishnikov dies ... physicist and astronaut. | ||2002: Nikolay Rukavishnikov dies ... physicist and astronaut. | ||
||2002: Peter Gabriel Bergmann dies ... physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions. He also introduced primary and secondary constraints into mechanics. | ||2002: Peter Gabriel Bergmann dies ... physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions. He also introduced primary and secondary constraints into mechanics. Pic: https://medium.com/@phalpern/desperately-seeking-einsteins-assistant-e68818d28f48 | ||
||2007: Winifred Asprey dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. | ||2007: Winifred Asprey dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. | ||
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1433: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino born. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, will influence the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.