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File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | ||
||1947: Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=Andreas+Gerasimos+Michalitsianos | |||
||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Pic. | ||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Pic. |
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses 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) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
2009: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.