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||1577: Achilles Gasser dies ... physician and astrologer. He is now known as a well-connected humanist scholar, and supporter of both Copernicus and Rheticus. Pic. | ||1577: Achilles Gasser dies ... physician and astrologer. He is now known as a well-connected humanist scholar, and supporter of both Copernicus and Rheticus. Pic. | ||
||1580: Samuel Argall born ... adventurer and naval officer. No DOB. Pic search | ||1580: Samuel Argall born ... adventurer and naval officer. No DOB. Pic search. | ||
||1576: Georg Joachim Rheticus dies ... mathematician and cartographer. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5583107.Georg_Joachim_Rheticus | ||1576: Georg Joachim Rheticus dies ... mathematician and cartographer. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5583107.Georg_Joachim_Rheticus | ||
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||1806: John Thomas Graves born ... jurist and mathematician. He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions and with personally discovering the octonions, which he called the octaves. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_T_Graves.jpg | ||1806: John Thomas Graves born ... jurist and mathematician. He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions and with personally discovering the octonions, which he called the octaves. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_T_Graves.jpg | ||
||Benjamin Silliman Jr. born ... professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil industry. Pic. | |||
||1850: William Sturgeon dies ... physicist, invented the electric motor. Pic. | ||1850: William Sturgeon dies ... physicist, invented the electric motor. Pic. | ||
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||1945: Thomas Hunt Morgan dies ... evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity. Pic. | ||1945: Thomas Hunt Morgan dies ... evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity. Pic. | ||
||1948: Frank Benford dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search | ||1948: Frank Benford dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search. | ||
File:Fred Hampton dead body.jpg|link=Fred Hampton (nonfiction)|1969: Black Panther Party members [[Fred Hampton (nonfiction)|Fred Hampton]] and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. In January 1970, a coroner's jury will hold an inquest and rule the deaths to be justifiable homicide. Critics will contend that Hampton was assassinated. | File:Fred Hampton dead body.jpg|link=Fred Hampton (nonfiction)|1969: Black Panther Party members [[Fred Hampton (nonfiction)|Fred Hampton]] and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. In January 1970, a coroner's jury will hold an inquest and rule the deaths to be justifiable homicide. Critics will contend that Hampton was assassinated. | ||
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1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám dies.
1681: Mathematician and APTO field agent Seki Takakazu publishes new theory of infinitesimal calculus which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1798: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani dies. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
1820: Physicist John Tyndall dies of accidental chloral hydrate overdose. He studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1942: Mathematician and crime-fighter Nathan Jacobson uses structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1969: Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. In January 1970, a coroner's jury will hold an inquest and rule the deaths to be justifiable homicide. Critics will contend that Hampton was assassinated.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi).
2005: Chemist, composer, and criminal investigator George Brecht uses conceptual art to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.