Today in Physics

April 30

Events

• 1993: CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
  More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web#Web_organization

Birthdays

• 1777: Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Very important mathematician and physicist
  • More: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Gauss.html
• 1876: Orso Mario Corbino
  • A physicist and politician. He is noted for his studies of the influence of external magnetic fields on the motion of electrons in metals and discovered the Corbino effect.
  • More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orso_Mario_Corbino

Deaths

• 2011: Ernesto Sabato
  • Writer, painter and physicist
  • More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Sabato

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