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In August 1976, Science published a retrospective cohort study by Educational Testing Service psychologist Herman Witkin and colleagues that screened the tallest 16 % of men ( over 184 cm ( 6 ' 0 ") in height ) born in Copenhagen from 1944 – 1947 for XXY and XYY karyotypes, and found an increased rate of minor criminal convictions for property crimes among sixteen XXY and twelve XYY men may be related to the lower intelligence of those with criminal convictions, but found no evidence that XXY or XYY men were inclined to be aggressive or violent.
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The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.
The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in August 1976 at the retail price of $ 169. 95.
In the 2008 film August, directed by Austin Chick, he played a supporting role as Ogilvie, alongside Josh Hartnett and Rip Torn, with whom he had worked in 1976 for The Man Who Fell to Earth.
This logo was placed in the top center of the cover from August 1975 to October 1976.
The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.
On 9 August 2010, Eagle Rock Entertainment released Live – The Early Years in the UK as a DVD compilation that includes Fusion – Live in London ( 1976 ) along with never before released live performances at Brunel University ( 1973 ) and on a German TV show Rockpalast ( 1974 ).
Friedrich Christian Anton " Fritz " Lang ( December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976 ) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.
George Hoyt Whipple ( August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976 ) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator.
Hurst became manager of Telford in 1976 and after three years joined Chelsea but was sacked in August 1981.
The invasion of East Timor by Indonesia in December 1975 and its annexation in 1976 and the referendum on independence of East Timor from Indonesia in August 1999 strained Indonesia's relations with the international community.
From January 1976 to August 1979, Jones served in the Officer Assignments Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. During this assignment, he was promoted to major in July 1977.
During the first few months of the military government, more than 70 policemen were killed in leftist guerrilla attacks. On 11 August 1976, urban guerrillas dressed like policemen intercept and kill army corporal Jorge Antonio Bulacio, with two shots to the head and set fire with Molotov bomb cocktails his military lorry belonging to the 141st Headquarters Communications Battalion.
Nawaf Muhammed Salim al-Hazmi (, ; also known as Rabia al-Makki ) ( August 9, 1976 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.
A State Department document made available by the National Security Archive on 10 April 2010 reveals that a démarche protesting Pinochet's Operation: Condor assassination program was proposed and sent on 23 August 1976 to US diplomatic missions in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to be delivered to their host governments but later rescinded on 16 September 1976 by Henry Kissinger, following concerns raised by US ambassadors assigned there of both personal safety and a likely diplomatic contretemps.
The compound was first administered to two normal human volunteers by Abass Alavi in August 1976 at the University of Pennsylvania.
The team took the field for the first time on August 1, 1976 in a pre-season game against the San Francisco 49ers in the then newly constructed Kingdome.
On 1 August 1976, the country became a republic, and the last Governor-General, Sir Ellis Clarke, became the first President.
The islands have had their own government headed by a chief minister, the first of whom was James Alexander George Smith McCartney, since August 1976.
Novelist Tom Wolfe coined the term Me decade in his article " The " Me " Decade and the Third Great Awakening ", published by New York magazine in August 1976 referring to the 1970s.
* August 24 – Carlo Gambino, American gangster ( d. 1976 )
* August 6 – Wright Patman, American politician ( d. 1976 )
* August 15 – Mary Nash, American actress ( d. 1976 )
* August 28 – George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1976 )
Viking 1 entered Mars orbit on June 19, 1976, with Viking 2 following suit on August 7.
August and Science
* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.
** ( 1878 August ), " Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis ", Popular Science Monthly, v. 13, pp. 470 – 482.
* Science and Invention — formerly Electrical Experimenter ; published August 1920 to August 1931
* Nature 476, 429 – 433 ( 25 August 2011 ) Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation-Nature International Weekly Journal of Science Nature. com
* Meet the Postwar Jeep August 1945 Popular Science
* " Lights on Man-Made Cascade Colored Like Rainbow " Popular Science, August 1932
Frank Kelly Freas ( 27 August 1922 – 2 January 2005 ), called the " Dean of Science Fiction Artists ", was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years.
Originally in Galaxy Science Fiction ( August, 1951 ), it was adapted to radio, television and comic books.
* Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover: A New Mathematical Mystery, by Dennis Overbye, New York Times, Science, August 15, 2006.
* " How Your Dial Phone Works ", August 1946, Popular Science detailed article on subject with illustrations
* August 3 – Fritz Hellwig, German politician ( CDU ) and former European Commissioner for Science & Research
In an internal e-mail apparently sent August 18, 2008 to NASA managers and leaked to the press, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stated his belief that the Bush administration had made no viable plan for U. S. crews to participate in the International Space Station beyond 2011, and that Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) were actually seeking its demise.
The winners were announced at Chicon 7, the 70th Annual World Science Fiction Convention the weekend of August 30, 2012, in Chicago.
Taleyarkhan received from September 2008 to August 2009 a $ 185, 000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate bubble fusion.
* August 6 – Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.
By sheer coincidence, exactly 100 years later on 07 August 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory rover used its Radiation Assessment Detector ( RAD ) instrument to begin measuring the radiation levels on another planet for the first time.
* Bell's speech before the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on August 27, 1880, in which he presented his paper " On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light: the Photophone ".
According to the Church of Satan historiography, other LaVey associates from this time include noted Science Fiction and Horror writers Anthony Boucher, August Derleth, Robert Barbour Johnson, Reginald Bretnor, Emil Petaja, Stuart Palmer, Clark Ashton Smith, Forrest J. Ackerman, and Fritz Leiber Jr.
The book originated as the short story " Ender's Game ", published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
Have Space Suit — Will Travel is a science fiction novel for young readers by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( August, September, October 1958 ) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958 as the last of the Heinlein juveniles.
He took up a position as Chair of Environmental Science and Science Director of the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, in August 2007 and joined the British Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( Defra ) as Chief Scientific Adviser in September 2007.
The UB is also home to three large research foundations: the Barcelona Science Park Foundation ( PCB ), which includes the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona ( IRBB ); the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute ( IDIBAPS ); and the Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ( IDIBELL ).
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