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||1910: Joseph Leo "Joe" Doob born ... mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. He will develop the modern theory of martingales. Pic. | ||1910: Joseph Leo "Joe" Doob born ... mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. He will develop the modern theory of martingales. Pic. | ||
||1915: Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin dies ... mathematician. | ||1915: Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1922: A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett. | ||1922: A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett. | ||
||1930: Paul von Ragué Schleyer born ... chemist and academic. | ||1930: Paul von Ragué Schleyer born ... chemist and academic ... made contributions in the area of synthesis of adamantane and other cage molecules by rearrangement mechanisms. He also discovered new types of hydrogen bonding. Schleyer also identified solvolysis mechanisms, including reactive intermediates. As a pioneer in the field of computational chemistry, Schleyer identified a number of new molecular structures, especially related to lithium chemistry and electron deficient systems. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=paul+von+ragué+schleyer | ||
||1931: Erich Wasmann dies ... entomologist, specializing in ants and termites, and Jesuit priest. He described the phenomenon known as Wasmannian mimicry. Wasmann was a supporter of evolution, although he did not accept the productivity of natural selection, the evolution of humans from other animals, or universal common descent of all life. Pic. | ||1931: Erich Wasmann dies ... entomologist, specializing in ants and termites, and Jesuit priest. He described the phenomenon known as Wasmannian mimicry. Wasmann was a supporter of evolution, although he did not accept the productivity of natural selection, the evolution of humans from other animals, or universal common descent of all life. Pic. | ||
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1670: First known use of Pascal's calculator in high-energy literature experiments.
1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes defeats gang of physics criminals in close-quarters combat.
1869: Physician, research scientist, and author Alice Hamilton born. She will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
1870: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil generate new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.
2018: Two Creatures 6 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.