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||1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian Jewish-American physicist and academic (d. 2011) | ||1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian Jewish-American physicist and academic (d. 2011) | ||
||Alvin Martin Weinberg (b. April 20, 1915) was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term "Faustian bargain" to describe nuclear energy. Pic. | |||
||1936 – Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997) | ||1936 – Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997) | ||
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1324: Alleged supernatural healer Malady saves patient from the Black Death, accidentally infects doctor.
1945: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming dies. He invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein dies. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
1963: Vandal Savage Press is front for clandestiphrine manufacturing operation, says crime-fighter John Brunner.