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John McCarthy (84) passed away 15 years ago today.
He pioneered computer science history as the founding father of Artificial Intelligence who created the Lisp programming language.
A camera onboard a V-2 No. 13 rocket captured the first historic photograph of Earth from outer space, 80 years ago today.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born 394 years ago today.
He advanced the field of biology as the "Father of Microbiology," engineering advanced single-lens microscopes to discover protozoa and bacteria.
Tycho Brahe (54) passed away 425 years ago today.
He was one of the most celebrated pre-telescopic astronomer of the Renaissance.
A new species of cat (the tilcayo tiger cat) has been discovered after a Bolivian man brought it to a local sanctuary mistaking it for a domestic kitten.
This marks the first time over a 100 years , a new species of cat is found.
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Albert Ballin was born 169 years ago today. (1857-1918)
He was a German shipping tycoon and the inventor of the modern cruise ship.
Leslie Comrie was born 133 years ago today. (1893-1950)
He was an astronomer and pioneer in mechanical computing.
Louis de Broglie was born 134 years ago today. (1892-1987)
He is a Nobel Prize in Physics laureate credited with discovering the wave nature of electrons.
Hugo Theorell passed away 44 years ago today to natural causes. (1903-1982)
He won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his pioneering research on oxidation enzymes.
Hans Christian Ørsted was born 249 years ago today. (1777-1851)
He is credited with discovering electromagnetism.
Frédéric Joliot-Curie passed away 68 years ago today due to liver disease. (1900-1958)
He was a Nobel Prize winning nuclear physicist and the son-in-law of Marie and Pierre Curie.
