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||1909: Marguerite Perey born ... physicist and chemist ... she discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. Pic. | ||1909: Marguerite Perey born ... physicist and chemist ... she discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. Pic. | ||
File:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.png|link=Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|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". | File:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.png|link=Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|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". | ||
||1911: Aviation pioneer Eugene Burton Ely dies in plane crash. He is credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing. Pic. | |||
||1937: Ernest Rutherford dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1937: Ernest Rutherford dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1939: Roman Ulrich Sexl born ... theoretical physicist. He is famous for his textbooks on Special relativity. | ||1939: Roman Ulrich Sexl born ... theoretical physicist. He is famous for his textbooks on Special relativity. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Roman+Ulrich+Sexl | ||
||1943: Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. | ||1943: Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. | ||
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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.
2017: Robot 7 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.