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Roy Purswell 1899 - 1989

Roy Purswell was born on February 20, 1899, and died at age 90 years old on July 22, 1989. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Roy Purswell.
Roy Purswell
February 20, 1899
July 22, 1989
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Roy Purswell's History: 1899 - 1989

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  • 02/20
    1899

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    February 20, 1899
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  • 07/22
    1989

    Death

    July 22, 1989
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    Roy Purswell lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1899, in the year that Roy Purswell was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1900, Roy was only 1 year old when the German physicist Max Planck formulated an energy theory, postulating the existence of "quanta," which lays the groundwork for the quantum theory of modern physics. In December, he introduced a paper on the Planck postulate which stated that E=hv - the energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency times a constant. Planck won a Nobel Prize in 1918 for his work in theoretical Physics.
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