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||1943: William Fogg Osgood dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1943: William Fogg Osgood dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1950: Vyacheslav | ||1950: Vyacheslav Stepanov dies ... mathematician, specializing in analysis. Pic. | ||
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] tries to warn NASA that [[Mariner 1 (nonfiction)|Mariner 1]] has been targeted by [[math criminals]]. | File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] tries to warn NASA that [[Mariner 1 (nonfiction)|Mariner 1]] has been targeted by [[math criminals]]. | ||
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||1995: Otakar Borůvka dies ... mathematician best known today for his work in graph theory. Pic. | ||1995: Otakar Borůvka dies ... mathematician best known today for his work in graph theory. Pic. | ||
||2000: Raymond Lemieux dies ... chemist and academic. | ||2000: Raymond Lemieux dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
||2016: Ursula Franklin dies ... research physicist and metallurgist. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. For her, technology was much more than machines, gadgets or electronic transmitters. It was a comprehensive system that includes methods, procedures, organization, "and most of all, a mindset". She distinguished between holistic technologies used by craft workers or artisans and prescriptive ones associated with a division of labour in large-scale production. Pic. | ||2016: Ursula Franklin dies ... research physicist and metallurgist. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. For her, technology was much more than machines, gadgets or electronic transmitters. It was a comprehensive system that includes methods, procedures, organization, "and most of all, a mindset". She distinguished between holistic technologies used by craft workers or artisans and prescriptive ones associated with a division of labour in large-scale production. Pic. | ||
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1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered the dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.
1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tries to warn NASA that Mariner 1 has been targeted by math criminals.
1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral sells for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent mathematician and long-time resident of New Minneapolis, Canada."