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||2003 – James H. Critchfield, American CIA officer (b. 1917)
||2003 – James H. Critchfield, American CIA officer (b. 1917)


||2005 – Philip Morrison, American physicist and academic (b. 1915)
||Philip Morrison (d. April 22, 2005) was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics. Pic.


||2006 – Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1919)
||2006 – Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1919)

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  • 1904: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.

    1904: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.

  • 1977: Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.

    1977: Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.

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