JULY 8 - BIRTHS Henri Cartan (source) Born 8 July 1904 Henri (-Paul) Cartan, mathematician contains more than 30 volumes and aims to present mathematics so as to illustrate the axiomatic structure of modern mathematics. Audrey Richards Born 8 July 1899 (died 1984) Audrey I(sabel) Richards, English social anthropologist, educator, researcher among several E. African peoples, esp. the Bemba. She did fieldwork in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Uganda, and the Transvaal. Among her subjects of study were social psychology, food culture, nutrition, agriculture, land use, and economic organization. She recorded, for example, how long it took to complete a typical task, such as building a fence or making a garden, average work days in different seasons, time to prepare food. Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (EB) Born 8 July 1895 (died 12 Apr 1971) Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics with Pavel A. Cherenkov and Ilya M. Frank for his efforts in explaining Cherenkov radiation. Tamm was an outstanding theoretical physicist, after early researches in crystallo-optics, he evolved a method for interpreting the interaction of nuclear particles. Together with I. M. Frank, he developed the theoretical interpretation of the radiation of electrons moving through matter faster than the speed of light (the Cerenkov effect), and the theory of showers in cosmic rays. He has also contributed towards methods for the control of thermonuclear reactions. Pyotr Kapitsa (source) Born 8 July 1894; died 8 Apr 1984. | |
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