2015 Event NASA is isolating a six-person team for a year within a small dome in Hawaii in order to simulate theoretical conditions of a Mars mission; the team will have no fresh air or fresh food, and a spacesuit must be worn when exiting the dome 2013 Event Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics include theoretical physicists Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain 1996 Death Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist, dies at 83 1952 Death Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at 58 1926 Birthday Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist 1912 Birthday Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist 1911 Birthday John Archibald Wheeler, born in Florida, American theoretical physicist, coined terms black hole, wormhole 1905 Birthday Laszlo Kalmar, born in Hungary, mathematician, discovered mathematical logic, founder, theoretical computer science in Hungary 1894 Birthday Hans [Henry] Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics 1839 Birthday Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist
