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||1941 – February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis. | ||1941 – February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis. | ||
||Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen (d. 25 February 1947), was a German physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908. Pic. | |||
||1950 – George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) | ||1950 – George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) | ||
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1836: Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1971: Chemist and academic Theodor Svedberg dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.
1972: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus dies. He "discovered" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
1999: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.