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||1986 – Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (b. 1902) Takahiko Yamanouchi (山内 恭彦 Yamanouchi Takahiko, d. 1986) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for group theory in quantum mechanics first proposed by Yamanouchi in Japan. | ||1986 – Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (b. 1902) Takahiko Yamanouchi (山内 恭彦 Yamanouchi Takahiko, d. 1986) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for group theory in quantum mechanics first proposed by Yamanouchi in Japan. | ||
||Walter Maurice Elsasser (d. October 14, 1991) was a German-born American physicist considered a "father" of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth. Pic. | |||
||2008 – Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (b. 1915) | ||2008 – Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (b. 1915) | ||
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1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
1881: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes calls Extract of Radium "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."
1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1948: Musician and physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies.
