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||1992 – Magnus Pyke, English scientist and television host (b. 1908) | ||1992 – Magnus Pyke, English scientist and television host (b. 1908) | ||
||Karl Stein (d. 19 October 2000) was a German mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic. | |||
||2002 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (b. 1932) | ||2002 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (b. 1932) | ||
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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.