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||2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1926) | ||2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1926) | ||
||Roger Yonchien Tsien (d. August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist and academic. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie. Pic. | |||
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' sells for three million dollars. | File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' sells for three million dollars. | ||
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1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.
1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
1889: Steganographic analysis of Judge Havelock With Glass reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
2017: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for three million dollars.