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2004 Katharina Dalton, doctor/writer, coined the phrase pre-menstrual syndrome, PMS, dies at 88
2001 Sir Fred Hoyle, "astronomer, science fiction writer", ", coined the term ""big bang"", ", dies at 86 2000 Robert Trout, radio Methuselah, ", coined the term ""fireside chat"" to describe FDR's informal speeches, ", dies at 91 1998 Dick Higgins, composer, coined term 'intermedia', founder, Something Else Press, dies of a heart attack in Quebec, Canada 1994 Sammy Taft, Canadian businessman (coined term "hat trick"), dies at 81 1963 "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium 1938 Dick Higgins, born in Cambridge, England, composer, coined term 'intermedia', founder, Something Else Press 1911 John Archibald Wheeler, born in Florida, American theoretical physicist, coined terms black hole, wormhole 1908 Kingsley Davis, sociologist/demographer, coined, population explosion 1907 Alan Strode Campbell Ross, professor, coined the terms U and non-U 1890 Karel Capek, Czechoslovakia, writer, R U R, ; coined the word "robot" 1308 Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42 |
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