The atomic number uniquely identifies a chemical element. This discovery is thanked to the British physicist Henry Moseley, who justified this empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number also from physical laws.
Most people know American author Herman Melville only by his most famous novel, the story of Captain Ahab and his paranoid hunt for the white whale Moby Dick, but Herman Melville was a productive writer as well as an intrepid world traveller.
On this day in 1948, the New York Herald published the news that gold has been found in California causing thousands of people to try their luck and seek for gold.
On September 17, 1991, the Finnish student of computer science Linus Torwalds uploaded Linux kernel version 0.01 of his later to become famous operating system Linux to the ftp server ftp.funet.fi and made it publicly available.
On October 17, 1604, the famous German astronomer Johannes Kepler started his observations of the 1604 supernova, named after him as Kepler's Supernova or Kepler's Star.
On October 31, 1632, Dutch genre painter Johannes Vermeer was born in Delft. Vermeer always worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
On November 30, 1835, famous American author Samuel Longhorn Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was born in the tiny village of Florida, Missouri. He is most noted for his humorous novels about the mischievous boys Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and their adventures on the mighty Mississippi River.
A. Garcia, M. Szomszor, H. Alani, и O. Corcho. Knowledge Capture (K-Cap'09) - First International Workshop on Collective Knowledge Capturing and Representation - CKCaR'09, (сентября 2009)
J. Hu, G. Wang, F. Lochovsky, J. tao Sun, и Z. Chen. WWW '09: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web, стр. 471--480. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)
B. Kules, R. Capra, M. Banta, и T. Sierra. JCDL '09: Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, стр. 313--322. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)
D. Milne, и I. Witten. CIKM '08: Proceeding of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, стр. 509--518. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)
R. Mihalcea, и A. Csomai. CIKM '07: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management, стр. 233--242. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2007)
P. Schonhofen. WI '06: Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, стр. 456--462. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2006)