American physicist and academic (died 2004)

Robert Bacher

Robert Fox Bacher was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Born in Loudonville, Ohio, Bacher obtained his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan, writing his 1930 doctoral thesis under the supervision of Samuel Goudsmit on the Zeeman effect of the hyperfine structure of atomic levels. After graduate work at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he accepted a job at Columbia University. In 1935 he accepted an offer from Hans Bethe to work with him at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Born

1905

August 31

Died

2004

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1900s

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1056 After a sudden gastric illness, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1218 Al-Kamil becomes sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty.
1314 King Haakon V moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
1420 The 8.8–9.4 Caldera earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region causing tsunami in Chile, Hawaii, and Japan.

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The world in 1905

When Robert arrived

april 17 The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
april 3 Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina
april 30 Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
april 4 In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.

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Altiero Spinelli 1907– Italian theorist and politician (died 1986) Caligula 12–41 Roman emperor (died 41) Clive Lloyd 1944– Guyanese cricketer Dee Bradley Baker 1962– American voice actor Henry Joy McCracken 1767– Irish businessman and activist, founded the Society of United Irishmen (died 1798) Hideo Nomo 1968– Japanese baseball player Husein Gradaščević 1802–1834 Ottoman general (born 1802) Isabella de' Medici 1542–1576 Italian princess (died 1576) Jean Béliveau 1931–2014 Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014)

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Andy Devine 1905–1977 American actor (born 1905) Dorothy Fields 1905–1974 American songwriter (died 1974) Eleanor Audley 1905–1991 American actress (died 1991) Félix Houphouët-Boigny 1905–1993 Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (born 1905) Franchot Tone 1905–1968 American actor, singer, and producer (died 1968) Francisco Javier Arana 1905–1949 Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (died 1949) Geoffrey Grigson 1905–1985 English poet and critic (died 1985) Helen Sawyer Hogg 1905–1993 American-Canadian astronomer and academic (died 1993) J. William Fulbright 1905–1995 American lawyer and politician (died 1995)

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