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1948 - William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
Births
1694 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist
1824 - Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist
1904 - Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer
1937 - Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1793 - Gilbert White, English naturalist
1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, inventor of the hot air balloon
1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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