March 27 in Physics History
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March 27 in Physics History - Births – Physicists born on March 27
Alfred Ewing (27 Mar 1855 - 7 Jan 1935)
He was a Scottish physicist who was born and educated in Dundee. He discovered hysteresis. He later became a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at Tokyo University. He also devised instruments to measure earthquakes. During WW I, he and his staff took the task to decipher coded messages. He also helped Sir Willian Thomas.
John Robinson Pierce (27 Mar 1910 - 2 April 2002)
He was an American communications engineer. He began working on the theory of satellite communication and made contributions to the development of microwaves and radar during WW II. He experimented with echo and it led to the development of Telstar that initiated the use of modern television and radio communications. He is also known as the father of the communication satellite.
Wilhelm Röntgen (27 Mar 1845 - 10 Feb 1923)
He was a German physicist who discovered X-rays in 1895. This discovery started revolutionary improvements in making a medical diagnosis. He also received the Noble Prize for physics in 1901 for his extraordinary services due to the discovery of X-rays.
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (27 Mar 1824 - 28 Nov 1914)
He was a German physicist who was the first to compute the electricity carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules. He was an expert in electrochemical research and developed an expression for the transport number of ions during electrolysis. Hittorf tube is named after him and he developed his laws governing the migration of ions.
March 27 in Physics History - Deaths – Physicists died on March 27
Wilhelm Beer (4 Jan 1797 - 27 Mar 1850)
He was a German amateur astronomer who worked jointly with Johann Heinrich von Mädler and published the first large-scale moon map. Their map provided the most complete details of the Moon’s surface. It recorded the moon’s surface in great detail. Beer also owned a fine Fraunhofer refractor that he uses in his private observatory. He gave the idea of naming minor craters with Roman letters that originated from the nearest large crater.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 Mar 1934 - 27 Mar 1968)
He was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first man to travel into space on 12 April 1961 when he was 27 years old. He graduated from the Soviet Air Force and volunteered to become a cosmonaut and joined a group of test pilots for training. He was informed that he had been selected to pilot the Vostok 1 spacecraft three days before the launch. He orbited Earth at a maximum altitude of 301 km once in 1 hour 29 minutes. Later, he trained other cosmonauts and toured several other nations. He was killed with another pilot in the crash of a two-seat jet aircraft while on a routine training flight.
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