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||1917: Irving Kaplansky born ... was a mathematician, college professor, author, and musician. Pic. | ||1917: Irving Kaplansky born ... was a mathematician, college professor, author, and musician. Pic. | ||
||1922: Carson Dunning Jeffries born ... physicist. The National Academies Press said that Jeffries "made major fundamental contributions to knowledge of nuclear magnetism, electronic spin relaxation, dynamic nuclear polarization, electron-hole droplets, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and high-temperature superconductors." He was noted for being the first to observe the isotropic spin-spin exchange interaction in metals (also known as the Ruderman-Kittel interaction). He also discovered methods for the dynamic nuclear polarization by saturation of forbidden microwave resonance transitions in solids. He also discovered the existence of giant electron-hole droplets in semiconductors. Pic search | ||1922: Carson Dunning Jeffries born ... physicist. The National Academies Press said that Jeffries "made major fundamental contributions to knowledge of nuclear magnetism, electronic spin relaxation, dynamic nuclear polarization, electron-hole droplets, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and high-temperature superconductors." He was noted for being the first to observe the isotropic spin-spin exchange interaction in metals (also known as the Ruderman-Kittel interaction). He also discovered methods for the dynamic nuclear polarization by saturation of forbidden microwave resonance transitions in solids. He also discovered the existence of giant electron-hole droplets in semiconductors. Pic search. | ||
||1924: William Macewen dies ... surgeon and neuroscientist. | ||1924: William Macewen dies ... surgeon and neuroscientist. Pic. | ||
||1924: Yevgeny Ostashev born ... test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences. Pic. | ||1924: Yevgeny Ostashev born ... test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences. Pic. | ||
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||1931: Burton Richter born ... physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics. Pic. | ||1931: Burton Richter born ... physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics. Pic. | ||
||1932: Larry Evans born ... chess player and journalist | ||1932: Larry Evans born ... chess player and journalist. Pic. | ||
||1935: Berry Louis Cannon born ... aquanaut who served on the SEALAB II and III projects of the U.S. Navy. Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair SEALAB III. It was later found that his diving rig's baralyme canister, which should have absorbed the carbon dioxide Cannon exhaled, was empty. Pic. | ||1935: Berry Louis Cannon born ... aquanaut who served on the SEALAB II and III projects of the U.S. Navy. Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair SEALAB III. It was later found that his diving rig's baralyme canister, which should have absorbed the carbon dioxide Cannon exhaled, was empty. Pic. | ||
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||1953: Gustav Herglotz dies ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. Pic. | ||1953: Gustav Herglotz dies ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. Pic. | ||
||1960: Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser. | ||1960: Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser. Pics. | ||
||1975: A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels. | ||1975: A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels. | ||
||1976: Hans Thirring dies ... theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense–Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918. Pic search | ||1976: Hans Thirring dies ... theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense–Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918. Pic search. | ||
||1978: Karl Wallenda dies ... acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas. | ||1978: Karl Wallenda dies ... acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas. Pic. | ||
||1980: Raymond Thayer Birge dies ... physicist. Pic search | ||1980: Raymond Thayer Birge dies ... physicist. Pic search. | ||
||1982: NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3. | ||1982: NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3. | ||
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1868: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan born. Millikan will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1869: Aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter steals Thomson tide calculator for personal use; Steampunks outraged.
1909: Physicist Nathan Rosen born. Rosen will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
1929: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel attends birthday party for Nathan Rosen. They will later collaborate on ideas which will lead The Eel to construct a portable wormhole generator.
1948: Computer programmer and crime-fighter Jean Bartik uses the ENIAC computer to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1990: Engineer Gerald Bull assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit.
2001: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.
2002: Portable envy components at risk of capacitor plague.