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File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|1922: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] born. He will provide the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem. | File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|1922: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] born. He will provide the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem. | ||
|link=Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|1923: [[Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|Marjorie Rice]] born ... amateur mathematician most famous for her discoveries in geometry. Pic search | |link=Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|1923: [[Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|Marjorie Rice]] born ... amateur mathematician most famous for her discoveries in geometry. Pic search. | ||
File:Friedrich Reinitzer.jpg|link=Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|1927: Botanist and chemist [[Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|Friedrich Reinitzer]] dies. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time. | File:Friedrich Reinitzer.jpg|link=Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|1927: Botanist and chemist [[Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|Friedrich Reinitzer]] dies. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time. | ||
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||1961: Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. | ||1961: Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. | ||
||1963: Friedrich Dessauer dies ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search | ||1963: Friedrich Dessauer dies ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search. | ||
||1968: In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. | ||1968: In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. | ||
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||1980: Erich Hückel dies ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||1980: Erich Hückel dies ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||
||1980: Allen Shenstone dies ...physicist. He earned bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge. After a brief stint as a junior faculty member at the University of Toronto, he returned to Princeton, where he was a professor in the Department of Physics 1925–62. He chaired the department 1949–60. He worked primarily in the field of atomic spectroscopy. Pic search | ||1980: Allen Shenstone dies ...physicist. He earned bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge. After a brief stint as a junior faculty member at the University of Toronto, he returned to Princeton, where he was a professor in the Department of Physics 1925–62. He chaired the department 1949–60. He worked primarily in the field of atomic spectroscopy. Pic search. | ||
||1980: Edward Copson dies ... mathematician known for his studies in classical analysis, differential and integral equations, and their use in mathematical physics. After graduating from Oxford University with a B.A. degree in 1922, he moved to Scotland where he spent the nearly all of his career. His first book, The Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable (1935) was immediately successful. He was a co-author for his next book, The Mathematical Theory of Huygens' Principle (1939). By 1975, he had published four more books, on asymptotic expansions, metric spaces and partial differential equations. Many of the papers he wrote bridged mathematics and physics, of which his last showed his interest in astrophysics, Electrostatics in a Gravitational Field (1978) which was relevant to Black Holes. Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thomas_Copson | ||1980: Edward Copson dies ... mathematician known for his studies in classical analysis, differential and integral equations, and their use in mathematical physics. After graduating from Oxford University with a B.A. degree in 1922, he moved to Scotland where he spent the nearly all of his career. His first book, The Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable (1935) was immediately successful. He was a co-author for his next book, The Mathematical Theory of Huygens' Principle (1939). By 1975, he had published four more books, on asymptotic expansions, metric spaces and partial differential equations. Many of the papers he wrote bridged mathematics and physics, of which his last showed his interest in astrophysics, Electrostatics in a Gravitational Field (1978) which was relevant to Black Holes. Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thomas_Copson | ||
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||2011: Neal R. Amundson dies ... chemical engineer and mathematician. Amundson was considered one of the most prominent chemical engineering educators and researchers in the United States. Pic. | ||2011: Neal R. Amundson dies ... chemical engineer and mathematician. Amundson was considered one of the most prominent chemical engineering educators and researchers in the United States. Pic. | ||
||2020: Larry Tesler dies ... computer scientist who worked in the field of human–computer interaction. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo! While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, and Gypsy, the first word processor with a graphical user interface for the Xerox Alto. During this, along with colleague Tim Mott, Tesler developed the idea of copy and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software. While at Apple, Tesler worked on the Apple Lisa and the Apple Newton, and helped to develop Object Pascal and its use in application programming toolkits including MacApp. Pic. | |||
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1698: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer born. He will be known as "the father of naval architecture".
1754: Physician and astrologer Richard Mead dies. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720), was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1852: The Orcagna scrying engine discovers "at least two megabytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions from the lost work of Abū Sahl al-Qūhī.
1922: Mathematician Hing Tong born. He will provide the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
1927: Botanist and chemist Friedrich Reinitzer dies. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time.
1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter The Eel (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter (right) from infiltrating Operation Sandblast, the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1979: Mathematician and crime-fighter Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use combinatorial number logic to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1997: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.