Today in Physics

April 27

Birthdays

• 1913: Philip Abelson
  • "physicist, a scientific editor, and a science writer"
  • More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Abelson

Deaths

• 1992: Gerard K. O'Neill
  • Inventor of the storage ring technology for particle colliders.
  • More: http://archive.spacefrontier.org/HighFrontier/gkobio.html
• 1999: Rolf Landauer
  • Best known for Landauer's Principle
  • More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

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