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File:Richard Smalley.jpg|link=Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|1995: [[Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|Richard Smalley]] uses carbon nanotubes to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemical constants]]. | File:Richard Smalley.jpg|link=Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|1995: [[Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|Richard Smalley]] uses carbon nanotubes to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemical constants]]. | ||
||1992: David Joseph Bohm dies ... scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality – that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact – was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of "implicate" and "explicate" order. | ||1992: David Joseph Bohm dies ... scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality – that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact – was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of "implicate" and "explicate" order. He also believed that the brain, at the cellular level, works according to the mathematics of some quantum effects, and postulated that thought is distributed and non-localised just as quantum entities are. | ||
||1994: Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. | ||1994: Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. | ||
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||1998: Dan Pedoe dies ... mathematician and geometer. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Pedoe.html | ||1998: Dan Pedoe dies ... mathematician and geometer. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Pedoe.html | ||
||1999: Robert Mills dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1999: Robert Mills dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+mills+physicist | ||
File:Tractor.jpg|link=Tractor (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Tractor (nonfiction)|Tractor]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Tractor.jpg|link=Tractor (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Tractor (nonfiction)|Tractor]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, praising him for his solution to the Problem of the Points, about which they had exchanged seven previous letters.
1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1678: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort born. He will write Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of derangements.
1853: Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels. Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime."
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1995: Richard Smalley uses carbon nanotubes to detect and prevent crimes against chemical constants.
2016: Tractor voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.
