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November 4

Events

• 1962: Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated, the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
  More: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA136820

Birthdays of Nobel Prize Winners

• 1933: Charles Kuen Kao
  • Nobel Prize in 2009 "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"
  • Bio from the Nobel website

Other Birthdays

• 1887: Alfred Lee Loomis
  • From Wikipedia: "American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist/physicist, pioneer in military radar usages, inventor of the LORAN or Long Range Navigation System, and lifelong patron of scientific research."
  • More: http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/loomis-alfred.pdf

Deaths of Nobel Prize in Physics Winners

• 2011: Norman F. Ramsey
  • Nobel Prize in 1989 "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks"
  • Bio from the Nobel website

Other Deaths

• 1698: Rasmus Bartholin
  • "remembered especially for his discovery (1669) of the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar (calcite)"
  • More: http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Rasmus_Bartholin.html
• 2007: Karl Rebane
  • "president of the Estonian Academy of Sciences from 1973 to 1990"
  • More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rebane

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