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File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2006: A capsule of dust samples collected by the spacecraft [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]] returns to Earth. | File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2006: A capsule of dust samples collected by the spacecraft [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]] returns to Earth. | ||
||2007: James Hillier dies ... computer scientist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. | ||2007: James Hillier dies ... computer scientist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic. | ||
File:Greedy colorings.svg|link=Greedy coloring (nonfiction)|2018: High-energy physicists discover a "[[Greedy coloring (nonfiction)|Greedy coloring]]" particle which "drains all the color from [[Color commentator (nonfiction)|color commentary]]." | |||
||2013: Walter Lewis Baily, Jr. dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||2013: Walter Lewis Baily, Jr. dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||2014: John Dobson dies ... astronomer and author ( | ||2014: John Dobson dies ... astronomer and author .. best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope; also known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy (and his unorthodox views of physical cosmology) through public lectures including his performances of "sidewalk astronomy." Pic. | ||
File:Phaeton 9.jpg|link=Phaeton 9 (nonfiction)|2019: ''[[Phaeton 9 (nonfiction)|Phaeton 9]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | |||
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1450: Polymath, cartographer, globe-builder, and crime-fighter Johannes Schöner demonstrates new type of globe which uses scrying engine techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.
1623: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi dies. He was a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
1818: A paper by British physicist David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals.
1896: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady dies. He was one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1908: Theoretical physicist and academic Edward Teller born. He will be known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he will not care for the epithet.
1945: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger dies. He contributed to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
1982: Fantasy Voronoi diagram commentators say that the upcoming Stardust mission "is certain to return interesting samples of dust from the coma of comet Wild 2."
2003: Chromatographic analysis of the famous Superimposed Fraunhofer misprint stamps reveals "at least fifty, perhaps as many as sixty" previously unknown colors.
2006: A capsule of dust samples collected by the spacecraft Stardust returns to Earth.
2018: High-energy physicists discover a "Greedy coloring" particle which "drains all the color from color commentary."
2019: Phaeton 9 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.