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||Charlotte Cynthia Barnum (d. March 27, 1934), mathematician and social activist, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics from Yale University. No pic. | ||Charlotte Cynthia Barnum (d. March 27, 1934), mathematician and social activist, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics from Yale University. No pic. | ||
||1945 – Vincent Hugo Bendix, American engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation (b. 1881) | ||1945 – Vincent Hugo Bendix, American engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation (b. 1881) |
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1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen born. He will win the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1923: Chemist and physicist James Dewar dies. He invented the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.
1925: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann dies. He will studied physics with his father, and later worked as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.
2011: Artist George Tooker dies. His paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.