Yesterday in Physics

July 5

Events

• 1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
  More: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ADV-B-00039-00001/5

Birthdays of Nobel Prize Winners

• 1946: Gerardus 't Hooft
  • Nobel Prize in 1999 "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics"
  • Bio from the Nobel website

Other Birthdays

• 1820: William John Macquorn Rankine
  • One of the pioneers of thermodynamics
  • More: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Rankine.html
• 1911: Endel Aruja
  • Prominent Estonian Physicist
  • More: http://www.balther.net/11221/

Deaths

• 1859: Charles Cagniard de la Tour
  • His discoveries include the supercritical fluid phase.
  • More: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095541412
• 1906: Paul Drude
  • Developed important electromagnetic/optical theory.
  • More: http://www.pdi-berlin.de/about-us/paul-drude-1

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