#today on the 6th of #December 1778, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born. He was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his #discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.
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#Today on the #December3rd 1616, John Wallis was born. He was an #English clergyman and #mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal #calculus. Between 1643 and 1689 he served as a chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
#today on the 1st of #December 1984, NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration.The Controlled Impact Demonstration (or colloquially the Crash In the Desert) was a joint project between NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
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#Today on the #November29th 1803, Christian Doppler was born. He was an #Austrian#mathematician and #physicist. He is known for his principle known as the Doppler Effect, which is that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer.
#today on the 28th of #November 1950, Russell Alan Hulse born.
In 1974, Hulse and Taylor #discovered binary pulsar PSR B1913+16, which is made up of a pulsar and black companion star.
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#today on the 26th of #November 1898, Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a #German chemist who won the #NobelPrize in #chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers.He is also known for his work involving free-radicals, many-membered rings, and organometallic compounds.
#Today on the 25th of #November 1814, Julius von Mayer was born. He was a German physician, #chemist and #physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. He is best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation of energy.#science#chemistry
#today on the 24th of #November 1925, Simon van der Meer was born. He was a Dutch particle accelerator #physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the #CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles.
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#Today on the 23rd of #November 1837, Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born. He was a #Dutch theoretical #physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on an equation of state for gases and liquids.
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#today on the 22nd of #November 1904, Louis Nรฉel was born. He was a French #Physicist and Known for Nรฉel effect and Nรฉel relaxation theory. He was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for #physics in 1970 for his pioneering studies of the magnetic properties of solids.
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#today on the 20th of #November 1889, Edwin Hubble was born. He was an #American#astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology and is regarded as one of the most important astronomers of all time.
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#today on the November19th 1711, Mikhail Lomonosov was born. He was a #Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and #Science
He discovers the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions.
#today on the 18th of #November 1923, Alan Shepard was born. He was an #American#astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961 he became the first American to travel into space, and in 1971 he walked on the #Moon.
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#today on the 16th of #November 1717, Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert(d'Alembert) was born. He was a #French mathematician, technician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopรฉdie.
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#today on the 15th of #November 1971, Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
The Intel 4004 is a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation in 1971.
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Today on the 14th of November 1930, Ed White was born. He was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to walk in... https://t.co/VglXPgEp0G
#today on the 14th of #November 1930, Ed White was born. He was an #American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to walk in #Space.
#Science#NASA