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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Dec 1925 | Jaime Mendoza-Nava: Composer | |||
| 01 Dec 1925 | Jordan Klein: Miami, Florida -- Cameraman / director (Thunderball) | |||
| 01 Dec 1925 | Vicente Arregui Garay: Composer, dies at 54 | |||
| 01 Dec 1925 | Treaty of Locarno signed | |||
| 01 Dec 1925 | Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) | |||
| 01 Dec 1925 | WW2 | Commander Choji Inoue, commanding officer of Naka, was promoted to the rank of captain. | ||
| 01 Dec 1925 | WW2 | Tenryu was placed in reserve at Kure, Japan. captain Isao Monai was named her commanding officer. | ||
| 01 Dec 1925 |
birth Martin Rodbell Born 1 Dec 1925; died 7 Dec 1998 at age 73. American biochemist who was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery in the 1960s of natural signal transducers called G-proteins that help cells in the body communicate with each other. He shared the prize with Alfred G. Gilman, who later proved Rodbell's hypothesis, by isolating the G-protein, which is so named because it binds to nucleotides called guanosine diphosphate and guanosine triphosphate, or GDP and GTP. Prior to Rodbell's research, scientists believed that only two substances—a hormone receptor and an interior cell enzyme—were responsible for cellular communication. Rodbell, however, discovered that the G-protein acted as an intermediate signal transducer between the two. |
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Martin Rodbell (died 1998), American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Dec 1950 | Richard Keith: Lafayette, Louisiana -- Actor (Little Ricky-I Love Lucy) | |||
| 01 Dec 1950 | Ernest John Moeran: British composer, dies at 55 | |||
| 01 Dec 1950 | Manju Bansal, Indian biologist and academic | |||
| 01 Dec 1950 | Gary Panter, American illustrator and painter | |||
| 01 Dec 1950 | Filippos Petsalnikos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice | |||
| 01 Dec 1950 | Richard Keith [birth name Keith Thibodeaux], American actor and drummer (David and the Giants) | |||
| 01 Dec 1950 | Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (b. 1894) | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Dec 1975 | Alya Rohali: Miss Universe - Indonesia (1996) | |||
| 01 Dec 1975 | Sandra Maidana: Miss Universe - Uruguay (1996) | |||
| 01 Dec 1975 | Nick Kenny: US columnist / songwriter (Nick Kenny Show), dies at 80 | |||
| 01 Dec 1975 | US President Gerald Ford visits China PR | |||
| 01 Dec 1975 | Matt Fraction, American author | |||
| 01 Dec 1975 | Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboard player and producer (The Mars Volta, De Facto, and Free Moral Agents) (d. 2014) | |||
| 01 Dec 1975 | Thomas Schie, Norwegian race car driver | |||
| 01 Dec 1975 | Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer | |||
| 01 Dec 1975 | Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (b. 1927) | |||
| 01 Dec 1975 | Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist (b. 1906) | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Dec 2005 | Gust Avrakotos, American CIA officer (b. 1938) | |||
| 01 Dec 2005 | Mary Hayley Bell, Chinese-English actress and playwright (b. 1911) | |||
| 01 Dec 2005 | Freeman V. Horner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1922) | |||
| 01 Dec 2005 |
Deep Impact launch In 2005, the Deep Impact space probe was launched on a Delta II rocket. On 3 Jul 2005, it was to release a special impactor spacecraft to crash into comet Tempel 1. The impactor's camera relayed closeup images of the comet's nucleus before the collision (4 Jul 2005). The impact ejecta was analyzed spectroscopically, and was found to have more dust and less ice then expected. Also identified were clays, carbonates, sodium, crystalline silicates, and a surprisingly high number of organic molecules. The comet nucleus was highly porous, with up to 80% empty space. Deep Impact continued as the EPOXI mission to the hyperactive comet Hartley 2 (4 Nov 2010), comet Garradd (Jan 2012) and comet Ison. It abruptly fell silent (8 Aug 2013), and was declared dead on 20 Sep 2013. |
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| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Dec 2010 | Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1914) | |||
| 01 Dec 2010 | Hillard Elkins, American actor and producer (b. 1929) | |||
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