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||Milton Stanley Livingston (b. May 25, 1905) was an American accelerator physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron with Ernest Lawrence, and co-discoverer with Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of the strong focusing principle, which allowed development of modern large-scale particle accelerators. | ||Milton Stanley Livingston (b. May 25, 1905) was an American accelerator physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron with Ernest Lawrence, and co-discoverer with Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of the strong focusing principle, which allowed development of modern large-scale particle accelerators. | ||
||Raymond Merrill Smullyan (b. May 25, 1919) was an American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Pic. | |||
||1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||
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||1953 – At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. | ||1953 – At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. | ||
||Johann Karl August Radon (d. – 25 May 1956) was an Austrian mathematician. He will make a number of contributions, including the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional, and | ||Johann Karl August Radon (d. – 25 May 1956) was an Austrian mathematician. He will make a number of contributions, including the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional, and Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic. | ||
Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic. | |||
||1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade. | ||1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade. | ||
Revision as of 20:08, 9 April 2018
986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.