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||Nicolae Popescu, Ph.D., D.Phil. (b. 22 September 1937) was a Romanian mathematician and Emeritus Professor. | ||Nicolae Popescu, Ph.D., D.Phil. (b. 22 September 1937) was a Romanian mathematician and Emeritus Professor. | ||
||Alice Hamilton (d. September 22, 1970) was an American physician, research scientist, and author who is best known as a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology. | |||
File:Winfried Otto Schumann.jpg|link=Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist [[Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|Winfried Otto Schumann]] dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere. | File:Winfried Otto Schumann.jpg|link=Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist [[Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|Winfried Otto Schumann]] dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere. |
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1547: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin born. His prolific and versatile genius will produce a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters will lead to imprisonment.
1624: Math photographer Cantor Parabola captures unprecedented images of Renaissance-era crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.
1976: Mathematician and crime-fighter Shoshichi Kobayashi uses transformation groups of geometric structures to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler dies. He was a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
2013: Signed first edition of Skip Digits, Conductor stolen; US Treasury investigators say money trail leads to Baron Zersetzung.
2014: The MAVEN probe reaches Mars and is inserted into an areocentric elliptic orbit 6,200 km (3,900 mi) by 150 km (93 mi) above the planet's surface.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates third anniversary the MAVEN probe reaching Mars.