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Anniversary on the 17th of November 1413

Anniversary
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100 years anniversary
17 Nov 1925   Charles Mackerras: Schenectady, New York -- Australian conductor
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17 Nov 1925   Colin Campbell Mitchell: Soldier
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17 Nov 1925   Libby Newman: Painter / printmaker / curator
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17 Nov 1925   Rock Hudson Winnetka IL, actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms)
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17 Nov 1925   Sir Charles Mackerras Schenectady NY, Australian conductor
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17 Nov 1925   Cancer treatment
In 1925, Dr. W. Blair Bell gave a lecture in London, advocating treatment of cancer with colloidal lead injections. The May 1926 issue of Popular Science Monthly said he the metal was injected into veins near the cancerous growth and claimed that in seventeen years of testing, out of about 200 cases treated, most of them thought hopeless, almost fifty were believed entirely and permanently cured. Bell was a surgeon, and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Liverpool University.
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17 Nov 1925   death
Johan August Brinell
Died 17 Nov 1925 at age 75 (born 21 Nov 1849).
Swedish metallurgist who devised the Brinell hardness test, a rapid, nondestructive means of determining the hardness of metals. Brinell studied many aspects of iron and its production. Brinell´s important work on transformations in steel during heating and cooling. His discoveries about the control of the carbon containing phases is the present basis for the knowledge about properties of steel. The Brinell Hardness Test measures the relative hardness of metals and alloys, by forcing a 10mm hard steel ball into a test piece with a 3000kg load for 30 seconds and measuring the surface area of the resulting indentation. The load is reduced to 500kg for very soft materials and the steel ball is replaced with tungsten carbide for very hard materials.
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75 years anniversary
17 Nov 1950   Roland Matthes: German DR, 100m / 200m backstroke (1968, 72 Olympics - Gold Medalist)
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17 Nov 1950   Roland Matthes German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Oly-gold-1968, 72)
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50 years anniversary
17 Nov 1975   Kay Johnson: Actress (Real Glory, Of Human Bondage), dies at 70
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17 Nov 1975   death
Detlev (Wulf) Bronk
Died 17 Nov 1975 at age 78 (born 13 Aug 1897).
American biophysicist credited with formulating the modern theory of the science of biophysics. He pioneered use of electro-microscopy to monitor human nerve network and was a leader in the study of human physiology in aeronautics. During WW II, he coordinated a group physiologists, located on air bases at home and abroad, who developed the Army Air Force altitude training and night vision training programs for pilots. Meanwhile, he studied the effects of low oxygen pressure on human performance. After the war, he became president of Rockefeller Institute/University (1953-68) and was prominent in scientific and governmental organizations including the National Science Foundation and the Presidential Science Advisory Committee.
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25 years anniversary
17 Nov 2000   death
Louis Néel
Died 17 Nov 2000 at age 95 (born 22 Nov 1904).
Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel was a French physicist who shared, (with the Swedish astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén) the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his pioneering studies of the magnetic properties of solids. His contributions to solid-state physics have found numerous useful applications, particularly in the development of improved computer memory units. About 1930 he suggested that a new form of magnetic behavior might exist - called antiferromagnetism. Above a certain temperature (the Néel temperature) this behaviour stops. Néel pointed out (1947) that materials could also exist showing ferrimagnetism. Néel has also given an explanation of the weak magnetism of certain rocks, making possible the study of the past history of the Earth's magnetic field.
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