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Events on Monday 1 January 1951 2
19511951: Juan Manuel FangioAlfa RomeoArgentine legend Fangio claimed the first of his five world titles, beginning one of the most dominant careers in motorsport history.
1951 – 1964Brooklyn PolytechnicJoined the faculty of Brooklyn Polytechnic (now NYU Tandon) in New York, where he would develop Marcus theory. During one intense month in the mid-1950s, he worked out the key equations for electron transfer rates.