Events
Birthdays
- Mihai Pătrașcu [1982]
Romanian computer scientist known for basic data structures - Hermann Huppen [1938]
Belgian comic book artist known for 'Jeremiah' - Gordon Gould [1920]
Inventor of the laser (according to some) - Warren Weaver [1894]
American scientist known for machine translation - Georges Lemaître [1894]
Belgian physicist who was first to postulate expanding nature of the universe - John Jacob Astor [1763]
First multi-millionaire in the U.S. - Pierre Louis Maupertuis [1698]
Developer of the principle of least action
Death Anniversaries
- Walter Zapp [2003]
Inventor of Minox subminiature camera - Lillian Hoban [1998]
American illustrator and writer - Bodo von Borries [1956]
Co-inventor of the electron microscope