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||1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (d. 2007) | ||1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (d. 2007) | ||
||1919 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842) | ||1919 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842) John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM, PC, PRS (/ˈreɪli/; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, which can be used to explain why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves. | ||
||1926 – Paul Berg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1926 – Paul Berg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||
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1660: Mathematician William Oughtred dies. He invented the slide rule in 1622.
1770: Astronomer Charles Messier is elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
1907: Spike in crimes against mathematical constants blamed on upcoming Tunguska event.
1908: The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1956: The Tunguska Event Preservation Society launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.