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File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|quaternion]]. | File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|quaternion]]. | ||
||1877: Frederick Soddy born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate . | ||1877: Frederick Soddy born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... he explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. Pic. | ||
||1901: Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. | ||1901: Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. | ||
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1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
1808: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1947: Mathematician and crimefighter Haskell Curry publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
1999: Signed first edition of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab sells for one and a half million dollars.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for two million dollars.
