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File:Winfried Otto Schumann.jpg|link=Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist [[Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|Winfried Otto Schumann]] dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere. | File:Winfried Otto Schumann.jpg|link=Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist [[Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|Winfried Otto Schumann]] dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere. | ||
||1975: Enrico Bompiani dies ... mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. | ||1975: Enrico Bompiani dies ... mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. Pic. | ||
File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] uses transformation groups of geometric structures to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Shoshichi Kobayashi.jpg|link=Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|1976: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Shoshichi Kobayashi (nonfiction)|Shoshichi Kobayashi]] uses transformation groups of geometric structures to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1979: Otto Robert Frisch dies ... physicist. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Pic. | ||1979: Otto Robert Frisch dies ... physicist. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Manhattan Project. Pic. | ||
||1979: A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined. | ||1979: A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined. |
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1547: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin born. His prolific and versatile genius will produce a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters will lead to imprisonment.
1624: Math photographer Cantor Parabola captures unprecedented images of Renaissance-era crimes against mathematical constants.
1703: Mathematician and scientist Vincenzo Viviani dies. In 1660, Viviani and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli conducted an experiment to determine the speed of sound. Timing the difference between the seeing the flash and hearing the sound of a cannon shot at a distance, they calculated a value of 350 meters per second (m/s), considerably better than the previous value of 478 m/s obtained by Pierre Gassendi.
1900: Mathematician, engineer, and Gnomon algorithm researcher Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne invents a nomogram which detects the Forbidden Ratio.
1970: Physician, research scientist, and author Alice Hamilton dies. She was a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
1974: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann dies. He predicted the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.
1976: Mathematician and crime-fighter Shoshichi Kobayashi uses transformation groups of geometric structures to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler dies. He was a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
2013: Signed first edition of Skip Digits, Conductor stolen; US Treasury investigators say money trail leads to Baron Zersetzung.
2014: The MAVEN probe reaches Mars and is inserted into an areocentric elliptic orbit 6,200 km (3,900 mi) by 150 km (93 mi) above the planet's surface.
2016: Two Creatures 2 is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates third anniversary the MAVEN probe reaching Mars.