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||1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson dies ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. Pic. | ||1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson dies ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. Pic. | ||
||1948: Mathematician and astronomer William Duncan MacMillan dies - he researched applications of classical mechanics to astronomy, and is noted for pioneering speculations on physical cosmology. | |||
||1965: Allen B. DuMont dies ... electronics engineer, scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public. Pic. | |||
||1967: American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser. Pic. | ||1967: American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser. Pic. | ||
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||2006: Gustave Choquet dies ... mathematician. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities. Pic. | ||2006: Gustave Choquet dies ... mathematician. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities. Pic. | ||
File:Rudolf Mössbauer.jpg|link=Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|2011: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer dies. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy. | File:Rudolf Mössbauer.jpg|link=Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|2011: Physicist and academic '''[[Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|Rudolf Mössbauer]]''' dies. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy. | ||
||2012: Chemist Norman Greenwood dies. Greenwood will co-author the innovative textbook ''Chemistry of the Elements'', make contributions to the chemistry of boron hydrides and other main-group element compounds, and pioneer the application of Mössbauer spectroscopy to problems in chemistry. Pic. | ||2012: Chemist Norman Greenwood dies. Greenwood will co-author the innovative textbook ''Chemistry of the Elements'', make contributions to the chemistry of boron hydrides and other main-group element compounds, and pioneer the application of Mössbauer spectroscopy to problems in chemistry. Pic. | ||
||2014: Eugene Dynkin dies ... mathematician and theorist. He has made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him. Pic. | ||2014: Eugene Dynkin dies ... mathematician and theorist. He has made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him. Pic. | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] entering orbit around [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] entering orbit around [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | ||
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1716: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.
1971: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann dies. She contributed to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups.
1971: Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2011: Physicist and academic Rudolf Mössbauer dies. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery (1957) of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence (now known as the Mössbauer effect), the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of Mariner 9 entering orbit around Mars.