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28 Aug 1524
Fazio Cardano |
death Fazio Cardano Fazio Cardano, Italian mathematician (born 1444) |
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28 Aug 1757
David Hartley |
death David Hartley David Hartley, English physician and psychologist (born 1705) |
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28 Aug 1839
William Smith |
death William Smith William Smith (born 1769), English geologist |
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28 Aug 1859
solar storm of 1859 |
solar storm of 1859 (astronomy) September 2 – The solar storm of 1859, the largest geomagnetic solar storm on record, causes the Northern lights aurora to be visible as far south as Cuba and knocks out telegraph communication. This is also called the Carrington event, Richard Carrington being the first known person to observe solar flares, due to this storm. It is also the first major solar radiation storm to be recorded. |
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28 Aug 1878
George Whipple |
birth George Whipple George Whipple, American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1976) |
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28 Aug 1898
Albert Claude |
birth Albert Claude Albert Claude (died 1983), Belgian engineer, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 for discoveries concerning the structures and functional organization of the cell. |
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28 Aug 1904
Secondo Campini |
birth Secondo Campini Secondo Campini (died 1980), Italian jet pioneer. |
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28 Aug 1952
Alan Hodgkin |
Alan Hodgkin (biology) Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley publish the Hodgkin–Huxley model of action potentials in neurons of the squid giant axon. |
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28 Aug 1954
George M. Church |
birth George M. Church George M. Church, American geneticist, molecular engineer and chemist. |
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28 Aug 1965
Giulio Racah |
death Giulio Racah Giulio Racah (born 1909), Israeli physicist. |
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28 Aug 2007
lunar eclipse |
lunar eclipse (, discoveries ) A total lunar eclipse occurs, visible in some parts of the Americas and Asia, and all of Australasia and the Pacific Ocean. |
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